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  • 1.  Limiting the Number of concurrent VM snapshots

    Posted Mar 03, 2020 12:09 AM

    Does anyone know if there is a way of reducing the amount of concurrent snapshots an ESXi 6.5 or 6.7 host can take? I think its either 8 or 12 but we'd like to limit to 4 for performance reasons on the storage end (this is for a backup POC).

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Limiting the Number of concurrent VM snapshots

    Posted Mar 03, 2020 01:44 AM

    ESXi 6 will take more snapshots than any doc would allow - I have seen VMs with 200 and more ...

    try

    snapshot.maxSnapshots = "4"

    in the vmx-file - but be prepared that that parameter may not be accepted by automatic backuptools.