Snapshot Consolidation with a low disk space options

After you delete all snapshots for a specific virtual machine, I am alerted that drives require codification, probably because it has insufficient disk space to successfully delete the snapshots. Of course, consolidation fails because of lack of space. I wonder if there are tricks to be able to consolidate records when the data store does not have enough space. So far I came up with the following options, but some are not ideal, I am looking for other suggestions:

-Increase the size of the data store: not ideal because the data store will have more than enough space once the snapshots are deleted and it is difficult to decrease after the fact.

-Storage vmotion the disks in another larger data temporarily store: a little better but not ideal due to the large amount of data

-Stop the virtual machine and try to consolidate: I read that additional disk space is needed to consolidate the disk while the VM is running. If this is the case, how can I be sure that it works, for example to calculate the required space before I incur the failure (see below for more information).

For each of these options, I am also looking for assistance calculating the space needed to consolidate properly, given the following information (let me know if further info is needed):

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According to the information provided, it seems that you use thin configured virtual disks. In this case the additional disk space required to consolidate snapshots could be anything up to the size/amount of snapshots, limited by the provisions of the virtual disk size less the current size of the hard file. If you consolidate snapshots, while the virtual machine is up and running, with the disk space required on the data store based on the changes made in the guest OS, while the Helper-Snapshot is active. Unfortunately, there is no available for this formula.

André

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