To maintain sufficient free space on a provisioned virtual drive I need to delete a snapshot which is the "live" virtual instance currently running. According to my understanding of the tech article "Deleting Snapshots" listed below, deleting a snapshot merges all existing parameters, system states & current data to the parent snapshot or in this case the base image.
The vSphere client version we are using is ver. 5.5. I want to confirm that by deleting the current snapshot, it will merge the current "live" data with the base image so that the result is no live data is lost in the deletion of the current snapshot.
Appreciate any insight for my question.
tech article link: Deleting Snapshots
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