diff --git a/tests/0_monitoring_tests/run.sh b/tests/0_monitoring_tests/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..459751e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/0_monitoring_tests/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -x
+
+# this test will take hourly, daily and monthly snapshots
+# for the whole year of 2017 in the timezone Europe/Vienna
+# sanoid is run hourly and no snapshots are pruned
+
+. ../common/lib.sh
+
+POOL_NAME="sanoid-test-1"
+POOL_TARGET=""  # root
+
+# UTC timestamp of start and end
+START="1483225200"
+END="1514761199"
+
+# prepare
+setup
+checkEnvironment
+disableTimeSync
+
+# set timezone
+ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna /etc/localtime
+
+timestamp=$START
+
+mkdir -p "${POOL_TARGET}"
+truncate -s 5120M "${POOL_TARGET}"/zpool.img
+
+zpool create -f "${POOL_NAME}" "${POOL_TARGET}"/zpool.img
+
+function cleanUp {
+  zpool export "${POOL_NAME}"
+}
+
+# export pool in any case
+trap cleanUp EXIT
+
+
diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
index 65e5658..33be8f6 100644
--- a/tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/README.md
@@ -27,4 +27,11 @@ cp sanoid/sanoid.defaults.conf /etc/sanoid/
 ```
 cd sanoid/tests/
 ./run-tests.sh
+```
+
+### Example using LXD VMs ###
+```
+VM_NAME=focal-sanoid-test
+lxc init ubuntu:focal $VM_NAME --vm -c limits.cpu=8 -c limits.memory=10GB
+
 ```
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