topic Re: snapshot size of VM inside datastore in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/snapshot-size-of-VM-inside-datastore/m-p/21407#M2089 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>From the NetApp side, no.&nbsp; To be able to do it from VCenter, there would have to be a "change rate" meter - but even then, it would be ugly.&nbsp; If it existed, and assuming that it didn't track new data (since only changed and deleted blocks take up snapshot space), you'd have to correlate that change rate somehow with your snap schedule and retention and add up all the copies...</P><P></P><P>Bill</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:59:32 GMT billshaffer 2014-07-02T14:59:32Z snapshot size of VM inside datastore https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/snapshot-size-of-VM-inside-datastore/m-p/21403#M2088 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>We've got three datastores (LUN attached via FC) with more that 100 VM's in there.</P><P></P><P>Is it possible to determine somehow the size of snapshots for every virtual machine one by one ? It doesn't matter if it will be done on NetApp side or VMWare.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:33:16 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/snapshot-size-of-VM-inside-datastore/m-p/21403#M2088 PIWYDYMUS 2025-06-05T05:33:16Z Re: snapshot size of VM inside datastore https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/snapshot-size-of-VM-inside-datastore/m-p/21407#M2089 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>From the NetApp side, no.&nbsp; To be able to do it from VCenter, there would have to be a "change rate" meter - but even then, it would be ugly.&nbsp; If it existed, and assuming that it didn't track new data (since only changed and deleted blocks take up snapshot space), you'd have to correlate that change rate somehow with your snap schedule and retention and add up all the copies...</P><P></P><P>Bill</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:59:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/snapshot-size-of-VM-inside-datastore/m-p/21407#M2089 billshaffer 2014-07-02T14:59:32Z