Snapshots

Overview

You can take one or more snapshots of a VM to capture the state of settings, disk and memory at specific times. A snapshot will consume storage on your vDC.
When you take a snapshot, other activities running on the VM could affect the snapshot process when you revert to that snapshot :

• From a storage point of view, it is better to take a Snapshot when you are not applying a heavy I/O load.
• From an operational point of view, it is preferable to take a Snapshot when none of the VM's applications are communicating with other VMs.

For example, it's a good idea to use snapshots before making a major update that could potentially have an impact on your applications.

Warning!
Do not use a single snapshot for more than 72 hours. Snapshots should not be used as a short or long-term backup solution .

Prerequisites

• VM Access
• VMware Tools have to be installed and up to date on VMs.
• Have sufficient storage resources on your VDC.

Snapshots management

From Data Centers / Virtual Machines / ALL ACTIONS / Snapshot You can : Create Snapshot Revert to Snapshot Remove Snapshot
Create Snapshot During a Snapshop : Snapshot the memory of the VM Quiesce the Guest File System You can't create more than One Snapshot by VM, creating a new one will delete the existing one.
Visualise Snapshots A tick in the Snapshot column will indicate whether or not a Snapshot is present. If a snapshot has been taken, you can seethe Date and the Hour. A snapshot will consume the size of your VM's disks. If you have decided to keep the RAM, the storage consumed will be equivalent to the size of the disks + the RAM.

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