Afraid to remove the old clichés.  Disaster always occurs.

I have several customers who have old clichés associated with them that are very old.  Delta disks are larger than the original vmdk at this point for some of them.

I got scared to remove these pictures because when I did in the past, the instant deletion/merging process will ultimately fail without any apparent failure recovery method.  The disks would become corrupted and I would have to restore data from a backup.  I really don't want to be forced to do it again because it's a huge pain to get the VM running and upward, and I had rather not take a backup VCB image unrelated reasons.

Is there a sure way to achieve this?  Should I just clone these machines on a new?  Will who basically shoot the deltas in a new vmdk and forget (and not care) that never existed in the original snapshots?  Run the same risk of these vmdk is corrupted?

Thanks for any idea.

Usually, I just used converter to achieve a direct P2V and kept the "exemplary" offline, just in case.  I do know that if a direct clone will be different, I've not played with it too.

I hate the removals of large snapshot because I'm really looking forward and once it times out I continue to watch the data store in the hope of seeing the files disappear.    I know how you feel...

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