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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Where are VMware Infrastructure 3.5 snapshots stored?

When you create a snapshot in VMware Instrastructure (formerly ESX), the server stops updating the .vmdk files. Instead it creates a delta file for each .vmdk file. Any writes are written to the delta file rather than the .vmdk file. This has a few implications: The amount of disk space used will increase (a delta [...]