Hey, I'm fairly new so bear with me.
I have inherited and environment of about 50 Hosts (ESXi 5.0) and 900 VMs. I'm looking for input as to how you all manage snapshots and the space they utilize. I'm using NetBackup.
I had a VM go down due to one of the three datastores it's on filling. I have two 2TB datastores. The datastores are completely provisioned to this Windows VM. So there's only a few GB free after provisioning. The obvious problem is when a snapshot is taken for backups the datastore fills and the VM is paused. I see I can force ESXi 5 guests to use the working directory for the VM, but what if I want to redirect just snapshots elsewhere?
How are you all managing to this issue if you're seeing it?