Suspicious "Total size:"

[UhodiZlodey]

Hello, i added a new VM to my vSphere and now trying to make a backup, but when i started to configure new Backup job i saw a very suspicious "Total size: 2,59 Gb", its cant be true, too small value.


In vSphere there is another value:



And finally "df -h" directly in the VM:



I think there is mistake, how it can be? What should i do to get normal backup value?
In "Exclusion" > "Disks" > "Disks to process : all disks"

[UhodiZlodey]

Everything is OK, I just made the backup job and started it, while it runs Veeam showed normal values

[Dima P.]

Hello Zlodey,

Backup job wizard displays the size received from VMware while during the job run actual disk size is displayed. Glad you nailed it!

[DonZoomik]

The mismatch is because of VM swap file. By default, VMware creates a per-VM swap file equal to assigned memory size. VMware considers this storage usage (well... it is) but Veeam ignores it because it is not backed up.