Specifications

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VMwareVirtualCentersnapshotsallowyoutopreservethestateofthevirtualmachine
soyoucanreturntothesamestaterepeatedly.
Thischaptercontainsthefollowingtopics:
 “UnderstandingSnapshots”onpage 249
 “UsingtheSnapshotManager”onpage 253
 “RestoringaSnapshot”onpage 255
Understanding Snapshots
Asnapshotcapturestheentirestateofthevirtualmachineatthetimeyoutakethe
snapshot.Thisincludes:
 Memorystate–Thecontentsofthevirtualmachine’smemory.
 Settingsstate–Thevirtualmachinesettings.
 Diskstate–Thestateofallthevirtualmachine’svirtualdisks.
Snapshotsoperateonindividualvirtualmachines.Inateamofvirtualmachines,taking
asnapshotpreservesthestateonlyoftheactivevirtualmachine.
Using Snapshots
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NOTESnapshotsofrawdisks,RDMphysicalmodedisks,andindependentdisksare
notsupported.