topic Re: SMVI snapshots in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70268#M16402 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks for that.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:03:42 GMT itmsnetapp 2010-09-27T23:03:42Z SMVI snapshots https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70256#M16397 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The title is not exactly reflective of what I am trying to ask - </P><P>When a SMVI backup job runs it creates snapshots of the VM's on the datastores it is backing up, these snapshots aren't cleaned up until the job completed.</P><P>This is fine if the job completes, but I have been experiencing a problem whereby one VM is preventing the job from either continuing or completing. This means that these snapshots continue to grow until such time that I restart the vmware vcenter server service - this seems to kill the smvi job.</P><P>The main problem I have with all of this is that one vm has the potential to cause a lot of pain, if the job doesnt complete and the snapshots grow large enough to use up all the free space in the volume.</P><P>Is there some way to set a timeout on a job or at a vm level? (running vsc 2.0)</P><P></P><P>cheers</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:08:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70256#M16397 itmsnetapp 2025-06-05T07:08:00Z Re: SMVI snapshots https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70259#M16399 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>You can clean up these jobs by using this script</P><P></P><P><A href="http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualization/2010/02/cleaning-up-vmware-snapshots.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualization/2010/02/cleaning-up-vmware-snapshots.html</A></P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P>Amrita </P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:34:02 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70259#M16399 amritad 2010-09-24T03:34:02Z Re: SMVI snapshots https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70268#M16402 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks for that.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:03:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-snapshots/m-p/70268#M16402 itmsnetapp 2010-09-27T23:03:42Z