All Questions
Tagged with vmware-esxi snapshot
63
questions
0
votes
1
answer
71
views
Are there hooks for Windows Updates?
It would be really neat to be able to attach a "blocking hook" to when a Windows Update gets installed so that I could take a snapshot on an ESXi of the machine in question before the update ...
- 4,909
0
votes
0
answers
109
views
ESXi 6.0 Consolidation
I had a snapshot that had eaten the free space in a datastore. I deleted the snapshot and now the snapshot manager is empty but I see delta disks and disks such as -0002.vmdk,... -0005.vmdk etc are ...
- 1
1
vote
2
answers
1k
views
How to configure VMWare cloned images to get unique IP addresses?
I am configuring an internal build system using Teamcity with VMWare vSphere. Once configured, the build server is supposed to start build agent VMs using vSphere API. I've got to a point where ...
- 266
1
vote
1
answer
241
views
How to extend the Ubuntu VPS storage via command line (Without GParted)
I loaded the VPS sever with 50GB snapshot VM image, so now the remaining size of the actual storage of this server is not allocated correctly which is remaining 110GB. The total size of the VPS is ...
- 173
1
vote
2
answers
959
views
Unclear why crash consistent backups are unsafe for MySQL
My understanding of the InnoDB engine is that the database is always recoverable after a crash, due to the internal architecture of the engine itself. That is, InnoDB can correctly recover from a ...
- 11
2
votes
1
answer
395
views
How to detect VMware snapshot presence from within VM?
I want to perform Linux fstrim or Windows degrag retrim on a file system within VM to shrink VMware vSphere thin disks. However this should be performed only if there is no snapshot present as fstrim-...
- 1,533
1
vote
0
answers
124
views
Populate Snapshot manager with missing snapshots or revert to one manually?
Is there a way to populate the Snapshot Manager with snapshots that are listed in the datastore but not under Manage Snapshots. Is there a way to either populate Manage Snapshots or using something ...
- 113
1
vote
2
answers
2k
views
How do I make a VMWare VM not be running on a snapshot?
I'm not sure I understand snapshots. I took a snapshot of a VM on ESXi. The Snapshot manager in VSPhere show the tree and at the bottom of that three is "You are here." It is underneath the ...
- 2,328
1
vote
2
answers
490
views
ESXI is there an alternative to snapshot removal?
I am running ESXI 5.5 and I am trying to remove the snapshots from our office server VM (SBS 2011). Yesterday afternoon I started the process and this morning it seems to be only at 5%, which means it ...
- 11
4
votes
3
answers
1k
views
How to do a snapshot of a Datastore on esxi vmware - datastore snapshot as fast recovery backup
I have a server with hundreads of vms and the snapshot is very useful to me, on incidents i can restore a vm to a point on time in no time, but i have many datastores where operational data is stored ...
- 43
0
votes
2
answers
737
views
VMWare old snapshot consolidation
I have been tasked to manage an old VMWare 4.0.1 installation, which is due to be replaced in the near future but it must be kept running at the moment.
I immediately noticed that some virtual ...
- 49k
19
votes
3
answers
1k
views
VMware Snapshot Longer than 3 days
Referring to this article
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025279
I know it is not good practice to keep a snapshot longer than ...
- 9,566
3
votes
1
answer
5k
views
How to calculate space required to delete snapshot
I wish to to some work on a virtual server, work which requires there to be no snapshots on the virtual machine. At the moment I have one snapshot on the machine, taken yesterday.
If I use the ...
- 33
2
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Boot from VMware snapshot file after accidentally deleting related snapshots
I'll preface this with the obvious: I am dumb.
I am currently working from home on some scheduled maintenance on a production server running on a vm -- a bitnami redmine/svn stack to be specific.
I ...
- 181
3
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Unable to revert snapshot: "the vendor of the processors in this machine is not the same"
Recently we moved to a new Intel-based ESXi 6.0 server from an older ESXi 5.5 AMD-based server, both with 64bit processors.
We just copied the VMs folders from the old server to the new one, then ...
- 315
0
votes
3
answers
10k
views
How Do I Remove Files Stored In a VMDK?
I am a developer, not an IT guy, but I am the one responsible for managing our servers currently. I have run into a problem... apparently our SQL backups are much bigger than I anticipated, and on ...
- 111
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
RHEL6.1 VM machines frozen when a quiesced snapshot is created for backup purpose
My RHEL 6.1 virtual machines running on ESXi hosts 5.1.0 get frozen when the backup procedure tries to get a quiesced snapshot. I have to reset the virtual machines from VMware console. The tool used ...
- 285
3
votes
2
answers
4k
views
VMware snapshot merge vs delete on "DELETE ALL"
A simple version of this question has been asked before (and links to VMware site for simple scenarios exist) - but this is a bit more complicated. I have 4 snapshot scenarios under VMware esxi 5.5:
...
- 1,841
0
votes
2
answers
3k
views
VMware snapshot + An error occurred while saving the snapshot msg.snap-hot error
I am using VMware version 5.5 (that manage 57 different VM Linux machines –red-hat version 6 until 7 )
In the VSphere Client (tasks and event), I saw the following error: (on Linux machine name – ...
- 43
3
votes
0
answers
655
views
SQL Server VSS writer interfering with VMWare snapshots
After changing to TSM for the VMWare backups, we've started experiencing an odd issue with our Snapshot backups.
We take system drive snapshots as a backup solution for the machine states.
All the ...
- 5,607
0
votes
1
answer
76
views
delete a snapshot created before LVM extension
I believe that snapshots and disk extensions are not friends, having said that...
Is it safe to delete a VMWare snapshot created before adding a new virtual hdd to my LVM partition?
What I mean is:
...
- 205
0
votes
1
answer
47
views
Restore an entire virtualized domain to earlier state?
We have set up a lab environment in our office to run various cybersecurity simulations. We are using ESXi 6.0 (VMWare) and we have a domain controller with 3 servers.
I know that snapshotting domain ...
- 363
15
votes
1
answer
24k
views
Incredibly slow snapshot removal
I have an ESXi box with HP LeftHand storage exposed via iSCSI.
I have a virtual machine with a 1TB disk, of which 800GB is consumed. The disk is thick provisioned on the LeftHand storage.
A snapshot ...
- 69k
6
votes
1
answer
16k
views
Shutting down machine while deleting large snapshot
On ESXi 5.1, i started deleting a snapshot some hours ago..
A big snapshot of about 800gb. the machine is an SQL Server.
It is only at 34% on deleting.
can i just shutdown the machine while ...
- 163
2
votes
2
answers
532
views
Will a Veeam 8 Snapshot Backup be be unable to restore my non-quiescable file-based databases if someone is logged in to them at the time?
We have some very old file-based databases (multi-user, but not Server-based) that are running on some VMs on an VMWare ESXi.
Setup
HyperVisor
The ESXi is running ESXi version 5.1.0
Virtual ...
- 4,909
19
votes
3
answers
5k
views
Is running permanently in a VMWare snapshot bad for performance?
I understand that the VMWare KB frowns upon long running snapshots mainly due to two things (In my opinion)
Taking tons of snapshots can fill up the data store. Snapshots are simply delta files. ...
2
votes
1
answer
252
views
VMWare: Are long running snapshots really THAT bad?
This is ESXi 5.5.
I know that the VMWare KB is very against long running snapshots, however I do not know of another way to do this.
Let's say I have a base Linux system and want to spin up a unique ...
1
vote
1
answer
129
views
Best practice for VMWare Snapshots for lab VMs
I am setting up test\dev machines in VMWare. We have about six users that I would like to give a VM to. They are all going to be based off a single base image (Ubuntu). I could always create six ...
- 13
0
votes
1
answer
90
views
Removing snapshot after removing guest hard disc
I have a server with ESXi 5.5 installed. I recently wanted to add a new hard disk to one of the guests. After adding the virtual disk to it, I took a snapshot just to be sure that nothing would go ...
3
votes
1
answer
6k
views
ESXi alerts to consolidate but there were no snapshots taken
I recently came a cross a disk failure on our server and got the disk replaced. Due to this disk failure there were certain issues which raised and now its going up and down. What my problem is that, ...
- 259
1
vote
1
answer
450
views
What will be deleted when I delete snapshot?
Using ESXi 5.0, I had a disk which was converted from VHD to VMDK using Winimage which left me with a sparse VMDK.
I tried to snapshot the VM after importing it which caused a problem. I believe I ...
user160910
2
votes
2
answers
212
views
ESXI Snapshots on a CentOS VM
On reverting back to a snapshot on one of my CentOS VM's the date is obviously set back to the original snapshot date. I was wondering if anyone knew of any other changes to the server (apart from ...
- 21
2
votes
2
answers
9k
views
Delete all snapshots over 30 days old
I'm currently using VMware 5.1 and looking for a method to keep snapshots that users create from becoming too old. Is there any tool inside of VMware that allows you to manage snapshots (or possibly a ...
- 330
0
votes
1
answer
717
views
Clone/Backup Strategy for VMs between ESXi and KVM requiring clones to run concurrently with original VMs
I am stuck on this problem and need help. ESXi Free version 5 and qemu-kvm/libvirtd version 0.10. I will put the TL;DR first since it captures the problem fairly well.
TL;DR
I have 2 VMs on a KVM ...
user160910
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Qcow2 converted to vmdk show as spare and can't be snapshot
As the title says, kvm disks that I converted and moved to ESXi are useless because I cannot use snapshots due to the fact that they are sparse disks. Does anyone have a resolution for this issue? ...
user160910
4
votes
1
answer
12k
views
Is it safe to delete this snapshot?
Building on a previous question I had asked re: a VM freezing at the end of the backup, one of the solutions Veeam has offered is to make sure that there are no other snapshots that exist of that vm. ...
- 4,028
0
votes
2
answers
484
views
ESX Free: Creating clones of VMs to run concurrently as a branch version
I have ESX free (most recent version 5.X) installed on a standalone server with an internal datastore in a RAID 5 setup. The VMs will be Windows mostly with some Linux and will be dedicated to ...
user160910
6
votes
2
answers
915
views
VMWare/ESX Snapshots vs Libvirt snapshots vs LVM2 snapshots
In VMWare, when a snapshot is taken, my understanding is that it creates delta disks, and any writes that occur after the snapshot is created will be written to these new delta disk images, and not ...
user160910
0
votes
0
answers
553
views
ESX: allowing users to snapshot VMs without vSphere Client Access
I am using ESX (latest free version 5.X) to host multiple VMs (mainly Windows with some Linux). Users will have control of these VMs and should be able to snapshot them, however I don't want to deal ...
user160910
-1
votes
1
answer
55
views
Switching Applications server on different VM snapshot
I have a VMware VM running with a specific Application Server.
Instead of creating a new VM for install a new application server, Is it a good practice creating a snapshot of old Application Server ...
- 113
0
votes
1
answer
73
views
Is it possible to quiesce a snapshot of a running server on an Esxi and back it up to a remote network several times a day?
There's an outside consulting company claiming that they are taking a snapshot of our local servers which reside on a VMWare Esxi, 4 times a daily while our servers are running. This snapshot is then ...
- 4,909
2
votes
4
answers
24k
views
Is it possible to copy a snapshot and associate it to another VM (which has same configuration)?
I am having two virtual machines with same OS and software list. (In fact they were cloned).
Now I have installed an application in a VM and taken a snapshot.
Is it possible to copy this snapshot ...
- 1,311
1
vote
2
answers
5k
views
Snapshot copy a VM to USB attached to ESXi 5.1 host
I was trying to script a snapshot backup of running VMs to a USB drive attached to the host. We are using the free hypervisor version of ESXi and do not want to purchase 3rd party products to do this.
...
- 55
3
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Checking for orphaned snapshots - ESXi5
So we had some issues with our passive mail node over the weekend doing vmtools updates and to resolve a problem we had to revert to a snapshot and then reseed all the databases across. All in all ...
user35213
6
votes
5
answers
17k
views
How do I delete ESXi vm snapshots using the least additional space possible?
We have a tree of about 15 snapshots of a virtual machine that runs Win2k8, as you may guessed our datastore is soon to run out of space. My objective is to delete all the snapshots, as it seems it ...
- 215
1
vote
3
answers
91
views
Revert a VM client from within the VM Client - is it possible?
I am creating a test VM (esxi V5) client for our QA department.
Once it's installed, my options will be:
Use a snapshot
Use non persistent disk on the hard disk.
For either options, I can give the ...
- 1,791
29
votes
4
answers
49k
views
Why VM snapshots are affecting performance?
I read in one of the VMware KB articles that snapshots will directly affect VM performance.
But my team keeps asking me how snapshots can affect performance.
I would like to give them solid reason ...
- 1,311
4
votes
0
answers
932
views
Downloaded -flat.vmdk from snapshoted machine is different everytime
I have a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0, machine has one Thick provisioned disk stored in VM forder (residing on local datastore).
I am planning to move the virtual machine to another ...
- 354
8
votes
3
answers
17k
views
vmware esxi 5, cant create snapshots and consolidate fails, how to delete old or consolidate redo logs?
I have a VM that seems to be working ok, but when VMWare DR (or I) tries to create a snap shot, it fails, and when I view the summary page of the VM it has a warning at the top showing that the disks ...
- 1,882
3
votes
1
answer
4k
views
Is it a bad idea to do an OVF Export of a VM with snapshot data?
I'm currently using a VM running on ESXi 5.0 to dry-run installation procedures for a software product. We're trying a whole different bunch of things, so I'm making extensive use of snapshots to save ...
