{"id":319,"date":"2008-05-27T19:18:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=319"},"modified":"2008-05-27T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:18:29","slug":"understanding-hyper-v-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2008\/05\/understanding-hyper-v-snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Hyper-V Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Hyper-V includes a new model for creating point-in-time views of your VMs and for quickly and easily rolling back to them.&#160; The new architecture is much improved over the &quot;undo disks&quot; model used by Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC.&#160; My SearchServerVirtualization.com article, <a href=\"http:\/\/searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com\/tip\/0,289483,sid94_gci1313384,00.html\">Taking Snapshots with Hyper-V<\/a> explains the details.&#160; From the introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever wished you could go back in time and remember how your virtual machines (VMs) used to look? You know, like before you installed that pre-production beta patch on a mission-critical application? Or before you accidentally overwrote the passwords in a login table by leaving off the WHERE clause of an SQL UPDATE statement? <\/p>\n<p>As the father of more VMs than I can count, I often feel the same way. Fortunately, Microsoft&#8217;s Hyper-V provides a useful method of creating and applying point-in-time views of the status of your VMs: the aptly-titled snapshots feature. This easy-to-use tool can create VM snapshots from the Hyper-V Management Console. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See the full article for an in-depth discussion of the benefits of snapshots and how you can use them to help manage your VMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Hyper-V includes a new model for creating point-in-time views of your VMs and for quickly and easily rolling back to them.&#160; The new architecture is much improved over the &quot;undo disks&quot; model used by Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC.&#160; My SearchServerVirtualization.com article, Taking Snapshots with Hyper-V explains the details.&#160; From the introduction: Have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-management","category-ms-microsoft-hyper-v","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}