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title: "Step 2. Adjust Snapshot Age/Size Thresholds for VM Replicas"
description: "For VMware VM replicas created with replication jobs, Veeam Backup & Replication maintains a chain of snapshots, where each snapshot serves as a restore point."
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# Step 2. Adjust Snapshot Age/Size Thresholds for VM Replicas

For VMware VM replicas created with replication jobs, Veeam Backup & Replication maintains a chain of snapshots, where each snapshot serves as a restore point. In case the chain includes large and old snapshots, the *Veeam VMware: Virtual Machine Snapshot Usage Analysis* monitor can trigger repetitive alerts for VMware VM replicas. To eliminate such alerts, the monitor is disabled by default for all VMs in the *Veeam Backup and Replication replica VMs (VMware)* group.

However, if necessary you can enable the *Veeam VMware: Virtual Machine Snapshot Usage Analysis* monitor for specific VM replicas.