Comments on: VM Snapshots and Performance or: How I Learned to Love My Martian Data Center

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:55:00 +0000

In reply to Braxton Lay. Very cool, I seem to forget PowerCLI exists. Using that would make it easy to automate a process to report on rogue snapshots. Thanks!

By: Braxton Lay

Braxton Lay — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:52:00 +0000

In reply to Bob Klimes. You can also use vSphere PowerCLI, connect to vcenter server using Connect-VIServer 'servername.' Once connected run a command like 'get-vm | get-snapshot | format-list vm, name, created, sizeGB'

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:05:00 +0000

In reply to Bob Klimes. Bob, Awesome, thanks for sharing that here, much appreciated!

By: Bob Klimes

Bob Klimes — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:59:00 +0000

One other way to check for vmware snapshot is to query the vcenter database with something like this:
SELECT vm.DNS_NAME,ss.SNAPSHOT_NAME,ss.SNAPSHOT_DESC,ss.CREATE_TIME
FROM dbo.VPX_VM vm
INNER JOIN dbo.VPX_SNAPSHOT ss
ON vm.ID = ss.VM_ID
WHERE ss.CREATE_TIME < DATEADD(dd,-3,GETDATE());

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:31:00 +0000

In reply to Carl Von Stetten. Very cool! Thanks for reading, and for the comments!

By: Carl Von Stetten

Carl Von Stetten — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:25:00 +0000

In reply to ThomasLaRock. Yes. The Nimble SAN OS automatically sends email notifications if it can't get confirmation from vSphere that the snapshot was deleted. If you miss that email, it also automatically generates a support issue to Nimble tech support, and emails come from their automated system to warn you about snapshot deletion problems.

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:17:00 +0000

In reply to Carl Von Stetten. Carl, Sounds like a good plan. Do you have alerts in place to let you know if a snapshot is not deleted properly?