Wednesday, July 1, 2015

When taking a snapshot of a VM in VMware it may be best to have the VM powered off.

It was pointed out to me today that not doing so captures a bunch of other state and balloons the footprint of the snapshot and increases the likelihood of something going South. A snapshot I restored that was taken when the VM was up was sickly at work today and spun and spun while trying to install Windows updates upon a restart.

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