topic Re: Can vmotion effect SnapShots in a Datastore on the storage? in ONTAP Discussions

Can vmotion effect SnapShots in a Datastore on the storage?

netappmagic — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:42:47 GMT

SnapShots will be changed as we remove or change the data in the datastore.

My question, can vmotion in vSphere change the size of SnapShots in a datastore on the storage?

aborzenkov — Tue, 15 May 2018 14:26:02 GMT

Snapshot "size" is amount of changed or deleted data. vMotion will delete data on source. So yes, it will cause snapshot "growth".

P.S. I mean of course Storage vMotion. Normal vMotion works with shared datastore, so it won't not have any effect.

netappmagic — Tue, 15 May 2018 15:55:44 GMT

What is the difference bwteen storage vmotion and normal vmotion?

the vmotion I am talking about is the Vsphere vmotion which move VM's from one datastore to other. Woud this effect snapshots?

aborzenkov — Wed, 16 May 2018 06:29:09 GMT

@netappmagic wrote:

vmotion which move VM's from one datastore to other

This is Storage vMotion.