How can I limit the amount of memory consumed by snapshots

Is there a way to limit the amount of storage space that each VM is allowed to use through clichés?  For example-, I create a virtual machine with a 50 GB hard drive, using a provisioning.  Snapshots are taken regularly, until the size of the hard disk of the virtual machine plus size of all of his shots is 100 GB.  Assume that 100 GB is all the storage I want to allow any virtual machine to consume on the SAN.  Can I create a parameter through VMware or a tool of management of open source, which will be shot at 100 GB and prevent the snapshots taken once reached the limit of 100 GB?   I'm looking for a parameter that can be defined once and applied to all virtual machines in the environment.

Thanks for your comments.

as far as I know, this is not possible. You can set permission on the question of whether a user has the features of snapshot, but you cannot set a quota, etc. You cannot control the number of snapshots, a user might take or how much it can grow by. A single snapshot can develop up to the initial size of the virtual machine.

VMware has an interesting poll on the management of the snapshot some time ago and some of the questions can suggest future features that could allow a type of instant control growth, etc. We will have to wait and see, but as it is today, it is not configurable. You can probably write scripts to monitor these virtual machines and after reaching a threshold, you can draw attention to it and maybe disable the snapshot feature but that will not stop a snapshot to give more if there are major changes in delta.

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