Can a Snapshot be moved?

[stanj]

ESXi 4.1

vCetner 4.1

I have a user VM that is not starting due to “not enough space” on the SAN where the VM is stored.

The snapshot is over 3 GB.

The VM is 47 GB

Is there a way I can move the 3 GB snapshot file from one SAN volume to a different SAN volume?

I will then re-point the snapshots to a folder on the other SAN volume.

I do not want to move the VM because there id only 35 GB of free space.

thanks

[DSTAVERT]

Why not move the whole VM to a different datastore. Storage vMotion if you have it. vCenter clone or VMware Converter if you don't. If you are having a non start due to space constraints moving the snapshot isn't going to help much and may complicate things with other VMs on the same storage.

[stanj]

Currently, we do not have enough space on any of the volumes to move the VM.

I was hoping to moved the 3 GB snap to see if I can at least strat the VM and use SNP MGR to delete the snap.

[DSTAVERT]

You can consolidate the snapshot with the VM powered off with snapshot manager..