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Enable Changed Block Tracking (CBT) on virtual machines

We've recently upgraded to ESXi 4.1 and we'd like to start taking incremental backups of our virtual machines.  I understand CBT must be enabled on all virtual machines before incremental backups will work (HW v7).

 

I have a couple questions about this:

  • Is there any downside to enabling this feature?  Does it cause extra overhead on the host or disk aray?
  • Is CBT enabled by default on all new VMs?

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