Re: Store snapshots in a separated datastore

Hi,

Welcome in the community ! 

So if you want more information about best practices with snapshot , it is here : VMware KB: Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment

Then , in esx 4 i had already used different location for my snapshot ( Issue with the block size ). So when you create a snapshot , all change are commit on it. So you don't have impact with a different datastore.

But It's always better to have snapshot based with their VM. When you are especting other issues Image may be NSFW.
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If you would change snapshot location : VMware KB: Changing the location of snapshot delta files for virtual machines in ESXi 5.x

Regards,

Julien.