StarWind VSAN with Proxmox: Best Practices for Snapshot Management

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lylybrown
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Thu Dec 25, 2025 2:14 pm

Hi everyone,
I’m setting up StarWind Virtual SAN on a Proxmox VE environment and plan to heavily use snapshots for testing VMs. I want to understand the best practices to manage snapshots with StarWind VSAN. Specifically:

- Are there any known limitations or performance impacts when using frequent snapshots on a StarWind VSAN volume in Proxmox?
- What is the recommended approach for cleaning up old snapshots to avoid storage bloat?
- Any tips to monitor snapshot-related performance issues effectively?

I haven’t seen detailed guidance on this on the forum, so I’d love to hear your experiences.
Thanks!
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yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Dec 25, 2025 4:52 pm

Welcome to StarWind Forum!
I'd suggest checking on it with Proxmox forum because snapshots are a part of Proxmox, not VSAN. If you plan for Proxmox 9, you need to check LVM Thick (LVM) shared storage.
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