Archive for March, 2010

Speed Up SMVI/VMware Snapshots (2010-3-24)

Category: ESX, NetApp, Storage, VMware, vSphere | 2 Comments

I found that there is a big improvement when running SMVI and selecting the VMware Snapshots option on NFS datastores after adding the following to /etc/vmware/config and rebooting the host:
prefvmx.consolidateDeleteNFSLocks  = “TRUE”
You will know whether it is working because you will see a .lck file appear in the folder containing the vmx file and snapshots [...]