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PowerCLI reports incorrect snapshot size on local datastore

Hi everybody,

Long story short.

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Environment Summary:

vCenter 5.1, ESXi 5.1

Remote Server:

Windows 2008 R2

PowerShell 2.0

PowerCLI 5.0

Shared Storage File System: VMFS 5.54

Block Size: 1Mb

Size: 2TB

Local Storage File System: VMFS 5.58

Block Size: 1Mb

Size: 0.274TB

Guest Virtual Disk: 10Gb

Disk Format: Eager Zeroed Thick

Guest OS: XP x86

Snapshots files in console (there are 2 snapshots):

-rw-------    1 root     root       16.0M SomeVM-delta.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root         331 SomeVM-000001.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root       48.0M SomeVM-000002-delta.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root         338 SomeVM-000002.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root       27.8K SomeVM-Snapshot1.vmsn

-rw-------    1 root     root       27.8K SomeVM-Snapshot2.vmsn

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Test 1

Local Datastore:

VM is off/on

Get-VM SomeVM | Get-Snapshot | %{ $_.SizeMb }

0.02715587615966796875

10256.0506000518798828125

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Test 2

Shared Datastore

1. VM is off after Host+Storage migration from Local Datastore:

Get-VM $vm | Get-Snapshot | %{ $_.SizeMb }

0.02715587615966796875

10288.0506000518798828125

2. VM is on:

Get-VM SomeVM | Get-Snapshot | %{ $_.SizeMb }

0.02715587615966796875

64.0506000518798828125

3. VM is off:

Get-VM SomeVM | Get-Snapshot | %{ $_.SizeMb }

0.02715587615966796875

64.0506000518798828125

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Test 3

Migrating back to Local Datastore

VM is off/on

Get-VM SomeVM | Get-Snapshot | %{ $_.SizeMb }

0.02715587615966796875

10256.0506000518798828125

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Test 4

I tried to clone the VM and it makes no difference

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Is it fixable at all since there are some local datastores to monitor remotely?

Regards,

rindr

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rindr
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Well, well, well, it turns out to be a long lasting story and still not fixed?

Get-Snapshot SizeMB property bug in 4.1

Now the same applies to PowerCLI 5.1 on local datastores only as well.

Checked it back in old 4.1 environment. In GUI there is no such confusion at all: the snapshot size summary is always correct in Storage Views in Snapshot Space column should it be single or multiple snapshots. So how come that according to the link above "it's a matter of how vSphere interpretes how the size of a snapshot is calculated" if it comes to Get-Snapshot, but the same inconsistency does not exist for the information reflected in GUI?

Is there any workaround to get local datastores snapshots size using Get-Snapshot? At least, the sum value from the GUI.

Thank you,

rindr

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