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Today we bring you an interesting article that explains how to clean up snapshot files to free disk space in VMware server. This tip may result very useful for those who are looking for a way to recover some virtual hard disk space and are frustrated with how much space the virtual machines demand.<\/p>\n

The expert Andrew Kutz offers some ideas for removing a snapshot chain in VMware Server: VMware Server how-to: Clean up snapshot files to free disk space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1011],"tags":[972,1012],"class_list":["post-27219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","category-vmware-en","tag-tips","tag-vmware-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRecovering virtual hard disk space in VMware server<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/recovering-virtual-hard-disk-space-vmware-server\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recovering virtual hard disk space in VMware server\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we bring you an interesting article that explains how to clean up snapshot files to free disk space in VMware server. 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