vmware workstation player turn off snapshot

Version 6 has some interesting features that I don't think get enough attention. VMFS is it's own monster that honestly if told by Satyam sounds like a random accident. VSAN has it's own code path and the history of it's file system is a bit odd (VMFS without the need for clustering or distributed locking was V1, V2 was a bastardization of some code and things from an acquisition and under the hood labeled VirstroFS despite not really being Virstro, and V4 (known in the UI today as V3 as the real v3 is a transitory state) is the one that allows dedupe and checksums.

I don't think Microsoft has anything like it really. It's so MSFT-ish ) (StorSimple Vs Tiering in S/S Vs Hybrid File Server Vs ReFS Tiering).VVOLs is effectively punting the code path to an extension of T10 (Sub LUNs) and then the array for how things are done. Note, ESXi 6.x closes snaps faster (no more helper snapshots, use of mirror driver!)ĮSXi 6.5 ALWAYS uses SparseSE Snapshots (Previously only used on 2TB or larger volumes), and vRA uses even stranger style snapshots that I'm not going to get into because I don't have 20 minutes, and a whiteboard. It's interesting why VMware is using different codetpaths to implemented the same functionality eventually.

If you want something longer term then clone the VM.Exception to this is with VVOLs, or VSAN that don't use regular VMFS Redo log snapshots. Snapshots should not be left for more than 3 days.

Vmware workstation player turn off snapshot