Using Snapshots; About Snapshots - Symantec ALTIRIS SERVER MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Using snapshots

This chapter includes the following topics:

About snapshots

The Virtual Machine Management component lets you create and manage the
snapshots of your virtual machines. The snapshots help you capture and save the
configuration settings and virtual disks of a virtual machine. You can take a
snapshot of a virtual machine in any power state. The snapshot also captures the
power state of a virtual machine.
Note: You can take a snapshot of a virtual machine that is in a suspended state
on VMware hosts only.
The snapshot management feature helps the people who work in the testing
environment. For example when the testers need to test the setup many times.
They can create a snapshot of a virtual machine and test the setup without the
need to reinstall the operating system newly every time.
The snapshots are stored in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
See
See
About snapshots
Creating a snapshot
Reverting a snapshot
Deleting a snapshot
"Creating a snapshot" on page 62.
"Reverting a snapshot"
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on page 62.
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