I hate snapshots
March 30, 2009 | by Steven Warren | Blog
If you have worked as an IT Administrator with VMware’s ESX server, I wonder if you hate snapshots. Don’t get me wrong, snapshots are a great feature and are very helpful in development and testing.
Let me ask you a question.
What happens when multiple people take snapshots 12 levels deep and take up over 160 gb of disk space just in snapshots? I can tell you . It can crash the server because you have run out of disk space. Tools such as Snaphunter exist to help manage snapshots but the overall management of them over time becomes a nuisance.
Let’s start a discussion on how you manage snapshots in your organization. How do you keep them from growing out of control? Do you hate managing them as much as I do?
