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.
Snapshot removal extremely slow : vmware
www.reddit.com › r › vmwareTake a snapshot in case it bombs, if it is successful then verify and delete snapshots ASAP. There's literally zero reason to have a snapshot sitting around for that long, and if you think that you need a snapshot for more than a day or two then you need to be making a clone of the VM instead.