A new KB brought my attention about VMware Snapshots. It’s certainly not a good idea to run a VM with snapshots during longer period of times. First of all, snapshots consume disk space. But even if it’s fairly easy to have a VM and take snapshots periodically with a vCenter actions, but is that really […]
Hyper-V versus vSphere Snapshots, and why not use snapshots as a backup solution
The way snapshots works are not the same on both hypervizors. Snapshots “made by hyper-v”, called Checkpoints, work a bit different way than the snapshots in VMware vSphere. VMware vSphere snapshots work differently. Administrator managing Hyper-V not being aware that the checkpoints are merged only when the VM is powered down, could find himself short on […]