After some investigation (and finding nothing) I got in touch with VMware support who were great as always. It seems that the Storage Views tab has been discontinued from vSphere 6.0 but they didn't update the release notes and documentation to tell people about it.
Thankfully, there's an easy way to sort it out.
Short Version
Create an alarm to let you know when a snapshot grows to a specified size.
Long Version
- Select the required level in your vCenter environment (e.g. Datacentre level) and select the Alarms tab.
- Select the Definitions view and right-click in the white space to create a new alarm
- Give the alarm a name, tell it to monitor Virtual Machines and to look for specific conditions.
- Right-click in Triggers, select New Trigger and change the type to VM Snapshot Size.
- Set the condition to 'is above' and decide what Gb value you want to be warned at and then alerted at. Nothing is required in the Condition Length fields
Bear in mind that different VMs will have different base snapshot sizes due to different RAM amounts, so you might need to play around with your values. You could also create a more specific set of alarms, targeted at different machines.
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