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  5. VM Snapshot Summary

VM Snapshot Summary

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

Virtualization Manager > Administration Reports > VM Snapshot Summary

This report shows all active snapshots by VM, datastore and ESX server. Identifies capacity associated with each snapshot, when the snapshot was created, by guest, ESX server and datastore. Use this report to identify out-of-date snapshots.

Table: VM Snapshot Summary

Column name

Description

File Name

Name of the snapshot file.

Snapshot Name

Name assigned to the snapshot.

Size

Size of the snapshot.

Last Modified

Timestamp of the last write access. For details about data collection options that impact the Last Modified date,

See Data Collection Options and VM Snapshot Summary.

Datastore Name

The datastore related to the snapshot.

VM Host Name

The name of the server hosting the VMs. Click the name to display the VM Server Detail report.

VM Name

Name of the virtual machine. Click the name to display the VM Detail report.

Create Date

Date snapshot was created.

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