The “Snapshot Tax”: Why Hidden Metadata is the Silent Killer of VMware Migrations
Editorial Integrity Verified This technical deep-dive has passed the Rack2Cloud 3-Stage Vetting Process: Lab-Validated, Peer-Challenged, and Document-Anchored. No vendor marketing influence. See our Editorial Guidelines. LAST VALIDATED: January 2026 TARGET STACK: VMware vSphere / Nutanix AHV STATUS: Production Verified I’ve walked into too many “ready-to-migrate” VMware environments where leadership swore everything was clean. No snapshots…