VMware Snapshots Archives - ESX Virtualization https://www.vladan.fr/tag/vmware-snapshots/ VMware ESXi, vSphere, VMware Backup, Hyper-V... how-to, videos.... Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:37:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 VM with snapshots some best practices https://www.vladan.fr/vm-with-snapshots-some-best-practices/ https://www.vladan.fr/vm-with-snapshots-some-best-practices/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:07:07 +0000 http://www.vladan.fr/?p=7331 A new KB brought my attention about VMware Snapshots. It's certainly not a good idea to run a VM with snapshots during longer period of times. First of all, snapshots consume disk space. But even if it's fairly easy to have a VM and take snapshots periodically with a vCenter actions, but is that really […]

Read the full post VM with snapshots some best practices at ESX Virtualization.

]]> https://www.vladan.fr/vm-with-snapshots-some-best-practices/feed/ 2 Hyper-V versus vSphere Snapshots, and why not use snapshots as a backup solution https://www.vladan.fr/hyper-v-versus-vsphere-snapshots-and-why-not-use-snapshots-as-a-backup-solution/ https://www.vladan.fr/hyper-v-versus-vsphere-snapshots-and-why-not-use-snapshots-as-a-backup-solution/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:30:32 +0000 http://www.vladan.fr/?p=6454 The way snapshots works are not the same on both hypervizors. Snapshots “made by hyper-v”, called Checkpoints, work a bit different way than the snapshots in VMware vSphere. VMware vSphere snapshots work differently. Administrator managing Hyper-V not being aware that the checkpoints are merged only when the VM is powered down, could find himself short on […]

Read the full post Hyper-V versus vSphere Snapshots, and why not use snapshots as a backup solution at ESX Virtualization.

]]> https://www.vladan.fr/hyper-v-versus-vsphere-snapshots-and-why-not-use-snapshots-as-a-backup-solution/feed/ 2 Video from VMware KB about creating alarm for a VMs running with snapshots https://www.vladan.fr/video-from-vmware-kb-about-creating-alarm-for-a-vms-running-with-snapshots/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:09:06 +0000 http://www.vladan.fr/?p=5409 Today I'll show you another video from VMware KB Website. You know that VMs in your production Virtual environment should not run on snapshots all the time. The snapshot feature is there so you can chesk some patches before you say… Ok those are fine.. no troubles for my application etc… and then you should […]

Read the full post Video from VMware KB about creating alarm for a VMs running with snapshots at ESX Virtualization.

]]>