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Disk Space Freed Upon Deletion (MB) – Indicates the amount of space that you
can reclaim upon deleting the virtual machine.This space includes the area
occupied by the virtual machine directory and "parent" directories up to an
ancestor that has "children" or other dependent directories. For more information
on virtual machine directories and disk space assessment, see "Assessing Virtual
Machine Disk Space" on page 130.
N Use the Refresh VM Storage button to refresh the disk space to view an
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accurate estimate of the space.
Chain Length – The number of delta disks generated by certain operations. For
various changes, Lab Manager freezes the original delta disk and creates a new
one.
The chain length indicates how scattered the virtual machine image is across the
directories of a storage server. "Working with Virtual Machines" on page 27 and
"Working with Machine Templates" on page 45 contain information on
consolidating chains to improve performance.
Cleanup Date – Date to automatically undeploy or delete virtual machines.
If Lab Manager flags a virtual machine for deletion and the storage lease expires,
this column displays the date of expiration.
Filter – Shows a subset of the total number of storage servers. Lab Manager
matches the text entered in the field to the left of the button against the attribute
data of the columns. Entries are not case‐sensitive.
Using the mouseover menu to the left of the field, you can filter across all columns
on the page or within a specific column.
The filter text search does not recognize wildcards. If you enter a traditional
wildcard, such as an asterisk (*), this function performs a literal search for an
asterisk symbol.
Refresh VM Storage – Refreshes the disk space for each virtual machine to ensure
the information is current. Use this button before assessing disk space (see
"Assessing Virtual Machine Disk Space" on page 130).
Delete Expired VMs – Deletes all undeployed virtual machines with a storage
lease that expired.
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