KB1681: VM Loses Connection During Snapshot Removal
www.veeam.com › kb1681Oct 04, 2012 · To isolate the VMware snapshot removal event, Veeam suggests the following isolation test: Create a snapshot on the VM in question. Leave the snapshot on the VM for the duration of time that a Veeam job runs against that VM. Remove the snapshot. Observe the VM during the snapshot removal.
Deleting Snapshots - VMware
docs.vmware.com › en › VMware-vSphereJul 22, 2019 · Deleting a snapshot consolidates the changes between snapshots and previous disk states and writes all the data from the delta disk that contains the information about the deleted snapshot to the parent disk. When you delete the base parent snapshot, all changes merge with the base virtual machine disk. To delete a snapshot, a large amount of information needs to be read and written to a disk.
KB1681: VM Loses Connection During Snapshot Removal
https://www.veeam.com/kb168104.10.2012 · Veeam does not remove the snapshot itself, Veeam sends an API call to VMware to have the action performed. The snapshot removal process significantly lowers the total IOPS that can be delivered by the VM because of additional locks on the VMFS storage due to the increase in metadata updates, as well as the added IOP load of the snapshot removal process itself.
Snapshot removal stops a virtual machine for long time ...
kb.vmware.com › s › articleAug 20, 2021 · Details. When a snapshot removal (consolidation) is in progress, you cannot perform other VM tasks, such as power operations, or vMotion migration, in the virtual machine. You must remove the snapshot without any interruption to ensure data integrity. Based on the amount of snapshot delta to be committed, the amount of time varies.