How can I see details about snapshot tree?

[rolohm]

When a VM has snapshots the disk conifiguration points to the nnnnnnn-000000x.vmdk files who all end up in the VM's home directory. Is there a way to find out where the original files reside and also if you have many disks there are a lot of snapshot and delta files with similar names, just indexed differently? Is there some cli command that will tell me the full structure of a snapshot tree?

[kjb007 · Accepted solution]

There are a couple of ways.

You can use the snapshot manager from the vi client, by right-click the vm name and go to snapshot-->snapshot manager.

You can open the *.vmsd file in the home directory. It has an order of all snapshots taken, and what files make up those snapshots, in order from top to bottom.

-KjB

[rolohm]

Thx!

Perfect!

/ R