Still confused about snapshots - delete or consolidate?

I use snapshots so rarely, I find that I'm confused. I have a virtual machine that has a snapshot for quite awhile ago (like 10 months...). I want to get rid of him, to recover the space. I won't have to go back; the way in which the virtual machine is running and configured is now acceptable for my developer. This particular virtual machine does not show a setting "Must consolidate", in the list of virtual machines for this 5.1 ESXi host, so I don't think I need to "consolidate". There is only the snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.

When I search "instant delete" in the VMware knowledge base, he told me that a 'Delete' will do a consolidation, and then delete the snapshot. This looks like what I want. But what is the difference between "Delete" and "consolidate"? "Consolidate" not he removes the snapshot later?

In my situation, what should I do? I think I need to 'delete '. This will get rid of the snapshot, but let my VM in the State it's in now. Is this correct? (Also, I could do this with the virtual machine, because the snapshot file is like 35G in size now, and I know that a delete or consolidate the will really take a lot of time with a snapshot this return). We will migrate all our warehouses of our current HP SAN data to a new SAN from Dell, so I want to clean up snapshots now.

Thank you

Hello Michael,

Actually consolidate and remove it from the same operation they commit it again records - that is to say the changes when the virtual machine will run on the snapshot on basic disks.

consolidate - validations of the disk-based data and removes the snapshot

Delete - validating data at the base disk and deleted files from snapshots.

Delete - Deletes the snapshot but does not commit the data on the basic disk.

The only reason why consolidate option has been added in ESX 5.0 or later versions was much assumed that the option remove would remove files and does not validate the data.

But on the real scenario. Just to avoid this VMware came with consolidate it. that consolidate the fact on background is it takes another snapshot and performs delete it all operations. Hope that clarifies the confusion.

And in your situation, you should make clear all.

Thank you

Avinash

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