Tag Archives: snapshots

Half the VM reboots on Patch Tuesday

Virtual machine snapshots are a quick way to recover from unexpected incompatibilities you may encounter when patching guest operating systems.  In fact, VMware Update Manager even provides an option to automatically snapshot a VM before applying updates and then delete … Continue reading

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Snapshots that shoot back

Although the Hyper-V Manager and SCVMM allow removing snapshots from running VMs, they are not actually merged until the VM is powered off. Continue reading

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Checkshots or Snappoints?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: What’s the difference between a checkpoint and a snapshot?

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