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esuarez78
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‎08-02-2011 09:07 AM
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What is the average size of a snapshot relative to the VM size?

I'm curisous if there is an average size, percentage wise, of a snapshot relative to it's other virtual machine files.  Anyone?

I'm trying to gage how much space I'll need to acommodate them. Also if I can't accomodate snapshots in the same directoy as the rest of the virtual machine files, how would I point snapshots to a different datastore?

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‎08-02-2011 09:13 AM
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Basically snapshots start at zero and increase as they are used. Snapshots should be very short term and so should not become large.

Snapshots
Best Practice http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025279
Understanding http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180

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‎08-02-2011 09:13 AM
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Basically snapshots start at zero and increase as they are used. Snapshots should be very short term and so should not become large.

Snapshots
Best Practice http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025279
Understanding http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180

-- David -- VMware Communities Moderator
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‎08-02-2011 09:29 AM
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Hi,

The moment you create a snapshot the minimum size allocated to the delta.vmdk is 16M and it grows as per the usage. You second question is answered in http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002929 but I wouldnt recommend this unless and untill you have a dedicated datastore for snapshots.

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