I have a question. I have a VM, where my user has made 3 snapshots - #1, then #2, then #3, then #4. This user tells me he only needs the latest snapshot, and not the intermediate snapshots.
I should be able to just delete them in reverse sequence - #3, then #2, then #1 - leaving only #4 as the single snapshot. And that should be all I need, to have #4 be the only snapshot I can revert to? And - most importantly - the only one taking up disk space. I need to delete #1-#3 to reclaim datastore space.
This shouldn't cause any issues, correct? I'm more used to deleting snapshots in reverse order - #4, #3, #2, #1 ...
No issue at all.
Snapshot are dependent on its parent snapshot/disk. So when you delete Snapshot #3 its data will just be merged with snapshot #2. Then Snapshot #4 is now dependent on Snapshot #2.
If you delete Snapshots #1,2,3 now the Snapshot #4 has the parent disk as its source for blocks changed in all the committed snapshots.
No issue at all.
Snapshot are dependent on its parent snapshot/disk. So when you delete Snapshot #3 its data will just be merged with snapshot #2. Then Snapshot #4 is now dependent on Snapshot #2.
If you delete Snapshots #1,2,3 now the Snapshot #4 has the parent disk as its source for blocks changed in all the committed snapshots.
Thanks for the confirmation.