# Ansible Snapshot size for Vmware Guest

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-snapshot-size-for-vmware-guest/25562>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [September 21, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-snapshot-size-for-vmware-guest/25562 "2017-09-21T17:06:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hemant\_Kulkarni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aeb1de/32.png) [@Hemant\_Kulkarni](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hemant_Kulkarni)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-snapshot-size-for-vmware-guest/25562/1 "2017-09-21T17:06:08Z")

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Hello All,

I am using vmware\_guest\_snapshot: module to take snapshot of VMS , I observed that snapshot Process is very fast and snapshot size is very less …

if I login to vmware console & take snapshot it will take 11 min and size of that snap is around 800 MB . on other side ansible play book take snapshot within no time and snapshot size is 40 KB only …

let me know if this is normal ? or do I need to change something from my side .

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Sebastien\_Desbois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sebastien\_Desbois](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sebastien_Desbois)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-snapshot-size-for-vmware-guest/25562/2 "2017-09-28T16:36:20Z")

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Hello

Until ansible version 2.4, you could only take a snapshot without quiescing and without memory dump.

By default, when you take a snapshot though vSphere client, the memory dump option is activated.

I guess this is why you have a time difference and a size difference.

Regards,