This post actually puts together two of my past posts to solve a ‘common’ problem. Common that is, if you often leave snapshots running, and do not have a method for otherwise checking on them. The situation is this:
It is 3:45PM on Friday (what good issue doesn’t happen on a Friday?), you are closing [...]
Clones and Snapshots, two of the many modern day miracles to come from virtualization. No? So they’re not as cool as VMware’s vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability, Fault Tolerance are they, but the are the foundation on which that magic is built. What happens to the machine in your corporate domain when you need [...]
Late Tuesday evening I was troubleshooting an issue with a Mr. Smith from #vmware on Freenode. Yes, really, his name was smith. The issue we were troubleshooting was related to sharing VMDK files, between two VMs running on separate hosts.
After pointing Mr. Smith to my “Share and Share Alike” and feverently insisting that it would [...]
I’ve found a few situations in which snapshots get stuck, like glue, to a running VM, and despite your best effort to delete them, they wont go away. Like in-laws, they stick around, a bit longer than is pleasant.
If a snapshot has not been removed cleanly on the first try, you may want to create [...]
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