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Hyper-V snapshots create recovery points for a virtual machine (VM) so that it can be returned to a previous state later if needed. Snapshots can be taken regardless of whether the VM is running and are completely transparent to its operation. They can save countless hours, allowing an administrator...
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[excerpt]Ben Armstrong: In Windows Server 2008 R2 we have made some surgical changes to the way virtual machine snapshots work and how they are exposed in the system in order to address some key customer pain points. Changes include: * You can now export a single snapshot from a virtual machine. This...
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[excerpt] The Hyper-V Snapshot feature(Checkpoint in SCVMM) is a very useful feature for Support Engineers. This allows us to revert the VM to a previous state irrespective of the local* changes you’ve made after the snapshot was taken. Working with customers on a daily basis necessitates having...
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[excerpt] The Hyper-V snapshot feature allows you to capture the configuration and state of a virtual machine (VM) at any point in time, and return a VM to that state without noticeable interruption. When you take a snapshot of a running VM, Hyper-V briefly pauses the VM to create a new automatic virtual...
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[excerpt] While working with snapshots that are attached to a highly available VM in a Cluster, you may notice after deleting a snapshot, it does not merge as expected. You'll notice the merge process almost immediately ends and the VM begins to restart. [/excerpt]
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[excerpt] Ben Armstrong: I would like to now take a little side road to look at what happens under the covers when you delete a snapshot and we need to merge the AVHD. Imagine that you have a virtual machine with the following snapshots [/excerpt]
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[excerpt]Ben Armstrong: There have been a lot of questions about how Hyper-V virtual machine snapshots work, and what considerations you need to take when using them. Frankly this is an area where I need to do more blogging – and we need to work to make the technology easier to understand “out...
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[excerpt]Snapshots is nice to have, in fact very nice to have when running a virtual platform. In Hyper-V it is easy to do snap-shots and there are no problems, or is there something you should be aware of... Yes, there is a a issue, it is not a bug but there is something you absolutely need to know...
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Technet Edge: John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture. In part 3, we dive into the following components: Hyper-V TAP program results (02:28) Virtual machine snapshots...
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Technet Edge: John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of Hyper-V. In part 2 we cover: How virtual machine snapshots work under the covers How to properly export a specific VHD/snapshot in your...