vSphere snapshots Archives - ESX Virtualization https://www.vladan.fr/tag/vsphere-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=6.9.4 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 […]

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]]> 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 […]

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