Delete a snapshot in ESXi 5 when data store is almost full

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  Post edited by: neojohn

  Unfortunately, I can't say for sure how much disk space you need. It depends on the chain of snapshot. What you can do is to 'Remove' the photos one by one (always the one closest to the basic disk, i.e. the oldest snapshot) and verify disk space after that. If a snapshot is rest in the data store after all snapshots are gone in the Snapshot Manager, create a new snapshot and run immediately 'delete all '.

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• Can photos be deleted from the data store directly?

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  I just doubt. Can shapshots be deleted directly from the data store.

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  No, snapshots work as a string. Deletion of one of the links in the chain breaks the chain. Please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 to see how snapshots work.

  I checked the Snapshot Manager, but was not able to locate snapshots in it, but at the same time there were three snapshots in particular virtual machine data store. What it means?

  Information about snapshots are kept in .vmsd the virtual machine folder. If this file is corrupt - for some reason-you won't see the correct string snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.

  Please create a list of all files in the folder of the virtual machine (dir *. * /oen > filelist.txt (for Windows) or ls-lisa > filelist.txt (for Linux)) and after (tie) the filelist.txt, file .vmx VM as well as the file .vmsd for your next post.

  André

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  Hello

  When you create a snapshot, you create a snapshot whose task (provided that you use a data store server-side) can be run from a job. To refresh the data, run the snapshot in a job task. If you create a task at the time the snapshot and the processes that use it, they will automatically connect and will be 'upstream' data through the snapshot in the process. You can then choose whether it would be appropriate to write the snapshot or not (for the effectiveness of performance if you want to do the straight through processing) by activating or deactivating the bucket of data staged that the snapshot written to. The snapshot in the work task means that the data is refreshed.

  For the work of design to the Director, you can refresh the snapshot by running again it manually in the context menu.

  Kind regards

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