{"id":134,"date":"2010-01-25T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:42:47","slug":"how-to-survive-esx-snapshot-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2010\/01\/25\/how-to-survive-esx-snapshot-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Survive ESX Snapshot Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you have fail, the power of fail has you.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no escape, but there is hope.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve fought the fail of corrupt ESX snapshots and missing -flat.vmdk files (once the -flat.vmdk file is gone, so is your data), you&#8217;ve experienced the joy of hoping you have a backup somewhere&#8230; anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qwerty.saikonetworks.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/20\/killing-worlds\/\">Max has a nice collection of resources<\/a> to monitor snapshot removal, check progress, recover from corruption, kill a hung VM and generally give you a better tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no easy way out, you may still survive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you find this post useful or have questions or comments?  Please let  me know!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you have fail, the power of fail has you.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no escape, but there is hope. If you&#8217;ve fought the fail of corrupt ESX snapshots and missing -flat.vmdk files (once the -flat.vmdk file is gone, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/2010\/01\/25\/how-to-survive-esx-snapshot-hell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popmartian.com\/tipsntricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}