An administrator receives reports from the application team of poor performance of a virtual ma- chine (VM). The administrator reviews the virtual machine and discovers that it has 20 snapshots that…

Inflating the base disk (e.g., from thin to thick provisioned) does not address the performance impact of existing snapshots and is unrelated to snapshot performance issues.

Reverting to a snapshot discards all changes made since that snapshot was taken and would reset the VM state, which is likely not the desired outcome for a production VM and does not improve performance of the current state.

Having many old snapshots significantly degrades virtual machine performance because each read/write operation needs to traverse a long chain of delta disk files, increasing latency and I/O overhead. Consolidating snapshots merges all changes from the delta disks back into the base disk, simplifying the disk chain and improving performance.

Deleting individual delta .vmdk files manually without proper consolidation procedures can corrupt the VM's disk chain and lead to data loss or an unbootable VM.