I’m not a big fan of the idea of VMware running on a host OS for production servers. One reason for that is that you have direct access to the VMware data files.
You could do something unfortunate, like:
`I’m not a big fan of the idea of VMware running on a host OS for production servers. One reason for that is that you have direct access to the VMware data files.
You could do something unfortunate, like:
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You won’t notice your mistake for weeks or months. So long as that VM is running it will keep an open file handle to the uncompressed file. You might notice some weirdness with “df” but that is about it.
Of course once you do restart the VM or reboot the VMware host OS, you’ll discover your harddrive is gone, and that backup is several months old.