https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Big-snapshots-on-a-vmware-LUN/m-p/131982#M8156 <P>Hello all,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Lately I'm facing a problem with a LUN&nbsp;containing virtual machines.</P><P>In fact, the volume contains the LUN (mapped to vmware eSXI) and netapp snapshots made every 4 hours. Lately all my snaps are as big as about 90GB which is crazy !</P><P>How can I figure out which one of the VMs is making so many changes ? Any tool is welcome.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>IlanXP</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:56:45 GMT IlanXP 2025-06-04T14:56:45Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Big-snapshots-on-a-vmware-LUN/m-p/131982#M8156 <P>Hello all,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Lately I'm facing a problem with a LUN&nbsp;containing virtual machines.</P><P>In fact, the volume contains the LUN (mapped to vmware eSXI) and netapp snapshots made every 4 hours. Lately all my snaps are as big as about 90GB which is crazy !</P><P>How can I figure out which one of the VMs is making so many changes ? Any tool is welcome.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>IlanXP</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:56:45 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Big-snapshots-on-a-vmware-LUN/m-p/131982#M8156 IlanXP 2025-06-04T14:56:45Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Big-snapshots-on-a-vmware-LUN/m-p/131995#M8157 <P>volume snapshot show</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>you can lock direct on vmware under performance&nbsp;tab on esxi host, and view under advanced&nbsp;show the write rate or write requests as stacked graph per VM.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:39:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Big-snapshots-on-a-vmware-LUN/m-p/131995#M8157 skneo 2017-06-19T11:39:13Z