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August 7th, 2025 18:41

Snapshot size limit exceeded.

In disk group 3 (DG3) of PowerVault MD1220, volume VD33-XEN-DATA33 says the limit has been exceeded. I've moved the VMs from this volume to others in case I need to make any changes.  I don't know what to do. This snapshot configuration is old. Other disk groups do not take snapshots.

One question, if I have RAID 5 why do I need snapshots?

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August 12th, 2025 12:09

Hi,

 

Thanks for your question.

Page 99, https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/pwv-md34xx38xx-ag_en-us.pdf Snapshots are a point in time copy of data, so if you had something deleted you could roll back, which a raid 5 doesn’t protect against. But if you don’t need them you should be able to delete them.

 

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