At work, our department just spent a ton on an ESX cluster, I don't have the specs but I can get those. In our intro to the cluster, the admin said that snapshots were discouraged. That was very ...

For VMs running on ESX and ESXi version 4, there's new functionality for creating snapshots. Generally speaking, I prefer not to have user-created VM snapshots in production-class server consolidation ...

Any member of the internal storage and virtualisation team. How long can they be saved? They're supposed to be deleted as quickly as possible. We have a script that creates a job in the company job ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...