A recent experience of mine has shown a flaw in the use of snapshots. How Do Snap Shots Work? Essentially, a snapshot is a point in time image of your VM that can also contain the memory data. After taking a snapshot any further data written to the VM's disk is written into a new vmdk file on the vmfs partition. As time goes on the new vmdk file grows in size. This is where issues arise.The VMDK has the potential to grow in size and fill the disk. When this happens the vm will stop working and it...