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VMware vCenter Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vCenter Cookbook Over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783553976
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kostantin Kuminsky Kostantin Kuminsky
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. vCenter Basic Tasks and Features FREE CHAPTER 2. Increasing Environment Availability 3. Increasing Environment Scalability 4. Improving Environment Efficiency 5. Optimizing Resource Usage 6. Basic Administrative Tasks 7. Improving Environment Manageability Index

Managing the space used by snapshots

Snapshots is one of the most useful, and at the same time dangerous, vCenter features. Snapshots allow saving the current VM state for rollback purposes.

At the same time, as changes happen to the virtual machine, a snapshot takes more space, which may potentially lead to a deficit of free space.

More details about snapshots and how to control space usage can be found in the Controlling space used by snapshots recipe in Chapter 6, Basic Administrative Tasks.

vCenter allows configuring an alarm for VMs with a snapshot larger than the specified size. Such an alarm can be used to locate virtual machines with snapshots. It can be useful for audit or cleaning purposes.

How to do it...

To create this alarm in vCenter Client, execute the following steps:

  1. Go to the Datacenter level, switch to the Alarms tab, and then to the Definitions view.
    How to do it...
  2. Go to File | New | Alarm or press Ctrl + M.
  3. In the General tab of the Alarm Settings dialog, give this alarm a name and make sure...
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