Snapshot VM State Disk

[soapee01]

PMVE: 6.3-4, ZFS

I created a snapshot about a week ago that included the system ram prior to a windows server upgrade. I've since removed the snapshot via the GUI since everything went smoothly.

I'm left with a VM disk on my zfs pool named like:

vm-100-state-SnapshotName

I believe this is a disk created to save the RAM, but it's twice the size of the allocated memory for the VM. I need to remove this to get some space back in the pool. When I try to do this, I get this error:
Cannot Remove disk image. Cannot remove image, a guest with VMID '100' exists! You can delete the image from the guest's hardware pane
The drive does not exist in the hardware pane. Is there a way to safely remove this?

Thanks!

 

[fiona]

Hi,
you can remove it with pvesm free <your storage ID>:vm-100-state-SnapshotName or zfs destroy your/zfs/path/vm-100-state-SnapshotName.

Please consider upgrading, Proxmox VE 6.x is end-of-life since a long time and won't get any (security) updates: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0