Can someone help me with this linked clone and VMEM file issue.

Hi,

I have created some linked clones from a base VM and everything is great until I turn them on and I notice that it creates a VMEM file equal to the size of the machines RAM.

This isn't ideal because it adds to the size of the VM and then its size on disk can go from eg. 450MB to 8.5GB. Providing I have set the VM to use 8GB RAM.

Now multiply that by 5 VMs and then all of a sudden I could be adding an additional 42.5GB to the disk.

What I would like to know is this normal behaviour for running linked clones, or is there anything that you can can do about it?

I know it's still smaller than a full clone, but it means I will have equate for the extra storage space if I can't do anything about it.

Thanks