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Prerequisites
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Ensure that you are familiar with the Delete and Delete all actions and how they might affect virtual
machine performance. See Deleting Snapshots.
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Required Privilege: Virtual machine .Snapshot management.Remove Snapshot on the virtual
machine.
Procedure
1 Right-click the virtual machine and select Manage Snapshots.
a To locate a virtual machine, select a datacenter, folder, cluster, resource pool, host, or vApp.
b Click the VMs tab and click Virtual Machines.
2 In the Snapshot Manager, click a snapshot to select it.
3 Select whether to delete a single snapshot or all snapshots.
Option Description
Delete Consolidates the snapshot data to the parent snapshot and removes the selected
snapshot from the Snapshot Manager and virtual machine.
Delete All Consolidates all of the immediate snapshots before the You are here current state
to the base parent disk and removes all existing snapshots from the Snapshot
Manager and virtual machine.
4 Click Yes in the confirmation dialog box.
5 Click Close to exit the Snapshot Manager.
Consolidate Snapshots
The presence of redundant delta disks can adversely affect virtual machine performance. You can
combine such disks without violating a data dependency. After consolidation, redundant disks are
removed, which improves virtual machine performance and saves storage space.
Snapshot consolidation is useful when snapshot disks fail to compress after a Delete or Delete all
operation. This might happen, for example, if you delete a snapshot but its associated disk does not
commit back to the base disk.
The Needs Consolidation column in the vSphere Web Client shows the virtual machines to consolidate.
Prerequisites
Required privilege: Virtual machine .Snapshot management.Remove Snapshot
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