For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

Looking at people’s VMWare implementations, the most common problem I see is people who run on snapshots for an extended period of time. And by that I mean months. This can cause downtime issues for ...

I believe that a snapshot of a vmware virtual machine on esxi 5.x (and probably 4.x as well) can only grow as big as the original virtual machine, whereas my colleagues think they can grow bigger.

When it comes to snapshots and backups, it is important to understand and specify whether to take application-consistent or crash-consistent copies. Why does it matter? Because either crash-consistent ...