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To capture the memory state of the virtual machine, verify that the virtual machine is powered on.
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To quiesce the virtual machine les, verify that the virtual machine is powered on and that VMware
Tools is installed.
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Verify that you have the Virtual machine.Snapshot management. Create snapshot privilege on the
virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2 Right-click a virtual machine from the list, select Snapshots, and select Take snapshot from the pop-up
menu.
3 Enter a name for the snapshot.
4 (Optional) Type a description for the snapshot.
5 (Optional) Select the Snapshot the virtual machine's memory check box to capture the memory of the
virtual machine.
6 (Optional) Deselect Snapshot the virtual machine's memory and select Quiesce guest  system
(needs VMware Tools installed) check box to pause running processes on the guest operating system
so that le system contents are in a known consistent state when you take the snapshot.
Quiesce the virtual machine les only when the virtual machine is powered on and you do not want to
capture the virtual machine's memory.
7 Click OK.
Restoring Snapshots
To return a virtual machine to its original state, or to return to another snapshot in the snapshot hierarchy,
you can restore a snapshot.
When you restore a snapshot, you return the virtual machine's memory, seings, and the state of the virtual
machine disks to the state they were in at the time you took the snapshot. If you want the virtual machine to
be suspended, powered on, or powered o when you start it, make sure that it is in the correct state when
you take the snapshot.
You can restore snapshots in the following ways:
Revert to Latest
Snapshot
Restores the parent snapshot, one level up in the hierarchy from the You are
Here position. Revert to Latest Snapshot activates the parent snapshot of the
current state of the virtual machine.
Revert To
Lets you restore any snapshot in the snapshot tree and makes that snapshot
the parent snapshot of the current state of the virtual machine. Subsequent
snapshots from this point create a new branch of the snapshot tree.
Restoring snapshots has the following eects:
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The current disk and memory states are discarded, and the virtual machine reverts to the disk and
memory states of the parent snapshot.
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Existing snapshots are not removed. You can restore those snapshots at any time.
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