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No, snapshots are always stored in the same location as the vmx file.<br />
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Sorry for the bad news
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No, snapshots are always stored in the same location as the vmx file.

Sorry for the bad news

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@hancocka interesting - does that move any other files? I always thought it was kind of weird you could spread the base vmdk files around but ths snapshots all went with the vmx...
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@hancocka interesting - does that move any other files? I always thought it was kind of weird you could spread the base vmdk files around but ths snapshots all went with the vmx...

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@bgoering: just the snapshot files, I think VMware invented it, when VMware users, run out of datastore, and need to put the snapshot files somewhere else, in emergency, we've tested running on SSDs to reduce read/write commit times.<br />
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Some of our clients have specfic Snapshot LUNs, so they don't have to calculate the 15-20% for the snapshot in the LUN, when they have thin LUNs. The size of the LUN is the size of the VMDK.
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@bgoering: just the snapshot files, I think VMware invented it, when VMware users, run out of datastore, and need to put the snapshot files somewhere else, in emergency, we've tested running on SSDs to reduce read/write commit times.

Some of our clients have specfic Snapshot LUNs, so they don't have to calculate the 15-20% for the snapshot in the LUN, when they have thin LUNs. The size of the LUN is the size of the VMDK.

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Is there a way to be able to save snapshots or edit the location where the snapshots can be saved either by using the GUI or by a script?<br />
This is for ESXi 4.1
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Is there a way to be able to save snapshots or edit the location where the snapshots can be saved either by using the GUI or by a script?
This is for ESXi 4.1

ESXi question

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.