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title: "Step 3. Capture Undeleted Temporary Snapshots"
description: "Sometimes vCenter Server may fail to remove a temporary VM snapshot created by Veeam Backup & Replication. For certain high-priority or production systems, you may want to maintain the virtual environment completely snapshot-free."
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# Step 3. Capture Undeleted Temporary Snapshots

Sometimes vCenter Server may fail to remove a temporary VM snapshot created by Veeam Backup & Replication. For certain high-priority or production systems, you may want to maintain the virtual environment completely snapshot-free. In this case, you can adjust the age threshold of the *Veeam VMware: Virtual Machine Snapshot Usage Analysis* monitor so that it triggers an alert if any snapshot is left after the backup job completion.

1. In OpsMgr, create a group that will include the necessary protected VMs. 
2. Override the *Veeam VMware: Virtual Machine Snapshot Usage Analysis* snapshot age threshold for the VMs group.