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Handian Sudinato posted Jul 23, 2025 09:19 PM

Can we change default location for snapshot to other datastore?

My Veeam backup is failed when trying create a snapshot due to not enough free space on vm source datastore.

So, I need to store the snapshot to other datastore where still have large free space.

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a_p_

See https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/314378/creating-snapshots-in-a-different-locati.html

Anyway, if there's a chance to free up disk space on the datastore by e.g. migrating a VM to another datastore, I'd prefer this one.
Remember that thin provisioned virtual disk (if applicable) may also cause the datastore to run out of free disk space.

André