Hi
I would like to have comments about the correct way to use snapshots.
Currently I have one ESXi 3.5 server with 4 VMs.
I use snapshots as follow :
- I always have 1 snapshot taken for each VM
- I regularly (before the size of the snapshot gets too big) delete the snapshot and right after take a new snapshot for each of the VM
- I will soon be able to take a backup of my VMs but I am not doing it now
I recently started to monitor the size of my VMs and they become several GB in only few days.
I am wondering if always having a snapshot on each VM is efficient.
I am starting to think that maybe snapshot should be taken only just before we make a big change on the server (software install or whatever) to be able to go back to the state we had before the operation in case it goes wrong, then delete the snapshot after we could confirm the operation went well, but shouldn't exist permanently.
Your comments are welcome! Thanks!
Yann
