Snapshot - how much space will be used?

I have a Windows SBS 2003 VM (on an ESXi 5.0.0.0, 504890) who will be migrated to SBS 2011. Before you begin the migration process, I would like to the SBS 2003 VM snapshot. Just in case the migration fails, then I can go back to my old snapshoted version. Before the migraiton, all changes to data (e-mail, files, printing) will be adopted - essentially the network will be put on hold. The current virtual machine is approximately 500GB, how much space do I need to calculate if I capture instant VM?

Thanks for your comments.

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Oliver

The size of the snapshot starts with 16 MB.

The size depends on the I/O of the changes inside the virtual machine.

But the size of the snapshot never goes beyond the size of the disk of the base.

Anything else is guess.

Reference: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025279

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