Reading Time: 3 minutes VMware snapshots are widely used for different purpose, but the main reason why they exist in vSphere is to help backup programs: using VADP a backup can start a VM snapshot in order to have a frozen file, copy it (or copy only the changed block with CBT and virtual hardware 7 or greater) and then release the snapshot. Other usage are to have a just in point rollback during patches or big changes, but a recommended practice is to release the snapshot as soon as possible. Large snapshots or broken or invalid snapshots are […]