Snapshot Polices

Maximum number of snapshot policies per HCI cluster

2048

Maximum number of VMs per snapshot policy

2048

Maximum number of consistency groups per snapshot policy

32

Maximum number of snapshots per snapshot policy (external disk snapshot)

12

Maximum number of snapshots per snapshot policy (internal disk snapshot)

12

Maximum number of snapshots per snapshot policy (storage snapshot)

24 for Manual mode / Number of snapshots in Smart mode = (0.6 * (host_num - 3) * 4 + 12) * ((2 * Capacity of a single SSD) / 480G)

Consistency Group Snapshot

Maximum number of consistency groups per HCI cluster

Unlimited

Maximum number of VMs per consistency group

64

Maximum number of disks per consistency group

64

Number of consistency groups a single VM is allowed to join

0, 1

Virtual Machine Snapshot

Maximum number of snapshots per HCI cluster

Unlimited

Maximum number of manually created external disk snapshots per VM

32

Maximum number of manually created internal disk snapshots per VM

7

Maximum number of manually created storage snapshots per VM

128

Maximum number of external disk snapshots per VM under a snapshot policy

12

Maximum number of internal disk snapshots per VM under a snapshot policy

12

Maximum number of storage snapshots per VM under a snapshot policy

24

Quiesce guest file system

Yes, No

Correlated Snapshotting

Maximum number of snapshots generated for a single VM within 24 hours

2

Maximum number of snapshots generated for all VMs within 24 hours

Number of cluster hosts × 10

Retention period for snapshots generated by linkage

3, 7, 12 days