Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...
Snapshot technologies have been around for a long time. Essentially, they let you quickly make online, disk-based copies of selected data sets that are easily accessed. With virtual computing becoming ...
I run a ZFS Nas at home and have just bought additional hardware for a KVM hypervisor. The plan is to run VMs on a ZVOL shared to the hypervisor machine. If I want to create snapshots there are a ...
VirtualBox Snapshots is a tool for capturing incremental snapshots of the virtual machine (VM) state. It enables us to restore our VM to a specific condition. In this post, we will learn how to create ...
For VMs running on ESX and ESXi version 4, there's new functionality for creating snapshots. Generally speaking, I prefer not to have user-created VM snapshots in production-class server consolidation ...