The “Snapshot Tax”: Why Hidden Metadata is the Silent Killer of VMware Migrations
VMware snapshot migration failures rarely announce themselves. I’ve walked into too many ‘ready-to-migrate‘ environments where leadership swore everything was clean — no snapshots in vCenter, healthy datastores, backup jobs green for years. And yet — replication stalled, cutovers failed, and migration timelines collapsed. The common thread wasn’t tooling. It wasn’t network bandwidth. It was snapshot…