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Thanks for the quick reply. &nbsp;It has helped enough for me &nbsp;:)
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Thanks for the quick reply.  It has helped enough for me  :)

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Hello all,<br />
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I've got a quick question. &nbsp;I've not been able to find any information that deals directly with this topic.<br />
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How much space is recommended on a datastore for things such as snapshots, swap file, etc?<br />
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We have a 1024GB total capacity. &nbsp;831GB is provisioned, and 193GB is free. &nbsp;We are at the warning threshold on free space and I wondered what is really needed to be kept free.<br />
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Obviously snapshots are variable, but we don't create them and leave them for extended periods of time, so that growth shouldn't get out of control.<br />
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Thanks in advance for any input!
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Hello all,

I've got a quick question.  I've not been able to find any information that deals directly with this topic.

How much space is recommended on a datastore for things such as snapshots, swap file, etc?

We have a 1024GB total capacity.  831GB is provisioned, and 193GB is free.  We are at the warning threshold on free space and I wondered what is really needed to be kept free.

Obviously snapshots are variable, but we don't create them and leave them for extended periods of time, so that growth shouldn't get out of control.

Thanks in advance for any input!

Recommended Free Space on VMware Datastore

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.