SAN Snapshots vs VMware Snapshots
I found people have a hard time understanding that a SAN Snapshot and a VMware snapshot are fundamentally different. I think because unless you’re a storage administrator, you’re probably not dealing a whole lot with snaps to begin with. VMware has made it more commonplace for System Administrators to deal with snapshot technology. SAN Snapshots Lets first look at how traditional SANs take snapshots. To start we have 6 blocks being used. The file system has marked blocks which blocks are being used. ...