dodegaard wrote: I do have Auto-Snapshots but am still a beginner with sys admin stuff on my VMs.
I would never under any circumstances whatsoever use the AutoProtect feature in its present inception! It might as well been called AutoDestruct and was one of the most ill conceived features VMware ever introduced because it as no aggregate controls like explicit scheduling, being able to be prompted and delay an AutoProtect Snapshot if necessary it it wants to take a snapshot at an inopportune time, etc. Causes overall performance degradation as the number of snapshots increases and become fragmented. Cause the VM to use much more Host disk space then the intelligent use of the normal Snapshot feature. I could go but you should be able to get the point.
Now don't confuse the normal Snapshot feature, and using it in an intelligent appropriate manner, with the AutoProtect Snapshot feature. Using normal Snapshots has it uses, its just the AutoProtect Snapshot feature in its present inception that I'm making a point about! 