Potentially simple Snapshot question

Hello. I think it would be a simple thing to look upward, but for some reason that I can't find the answer to the it.

I am running Vi3 with ESX 3.5i hosts 4. I need to know exactly where a VM snapshot records in. I have a 250 GB drive on an FTP server that I have I envy snapshot in the future. I just formatted a table iSCSI with 440GB LUN. So if a snapshot of my 250 GB drive MUST reside on the same LUN as the original machine, obviously I would not have enough space. Can I choose where to store my snapshots?

Thanks for the help,

Tim

With the VM snapshot, they are stored in the same directory as the virtual machine.  That said, when you create a snapshot it saves only the changes and therefore the space requirements depend on how long the snapshot has been kept active. Committing, it's quite abit more complicated, but as long as you do not have an active snapshot or multiple snapshots on the virtual machine, you need also not 250 GB in order to commit (which would be just inefficient).  Unfortunately I do not know a calculation that will allow you to say that, because it is based on the number of changes and levels of snapshots on the virtual machine.

I think that it is possible to change the directory stored in the snapshot, from the command-line editing the VMX file, however I do not recommend to change.  I don't remember the exact setting off my head to do it.

See you soon,.

/ Jonathan

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