You deleted 500GB of temp files inside a VM, but the VMDK is still 1TB on the datastore.
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The files are ~80 MB (Windows) and ~70 MB (Linux). Using wget on Linux or a persistent download manager on Windows ensures integrity. You deleted 500GB of temp files inside a
Linux example:
wget --no-check-certificate https://download3.vmware.com/software/vddk-6.7.0-670/VMware-vix-disklib-6.7.0-670.x86_64.tar.gz
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