VMware Snapshots Questions and Answers

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Use VMware Snapshot of Another Machine?

Hi, Someone at my company inadvertently hit "Revert to Snapshot" and lost the current configuration (of Machine A). I have a copy of a snapshot from another machine (Machine B) that I would like to use. Can I? If so, how do I set it up? I can't find any documentation on this. Thanks.

View Answer   |  Jul 10 2009  7:31 PM GMT
VMware, VMware snapshots
asked by Ankimo

  25 pts.

How to mount HP StorageWorks MSA2000 snapshot and assign LUN?

Running VMware ESX and have a StorageWorks MSA2000 snapshot. What steps do we need to take to mount the snapshot to a VM and assign a LUN? Thank you very much. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

View Answer   |  Jun 26 2009  7:42 PM GMT
HP StorageWorks MSA2000, VMware ESX 4.0, LUN
asked by BrentSheets

  6535 pts.

Managing snapshots in a VMware environment

I am running a VMware environment and have recently taken four snapshots. Due to an available space issue, I was forced to delete three of these snapshots. I could not properly clean up those deleted snapshots and, as a result, the vmdk files from them still exist in the environment. Obviously I...

View Answer   |  Dec 9 2008  8:01 PM GMT
Virtualization, Managing virtual environments, VMware
asked by SearchServerVirtualization ATE

  385 pts.

Can user data be protected from VMware snapshots?

Last week, a big problem occurred at out data center: The physical server, upon which was hosted VMware and eight logical servers, reset itself. When we rebooted the system, we noticed that all data was wiped out. The logical servers were operational but data was gone. We called VMware support, and...

View Answer   |  Jul 29 2008  8:02 PM GMT
VMware ESX, VMware snapshots, Backup & recovery
asked by SearchServerVirtualization ATE

  385 pts.

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