Managing VM snapshots
A snapshot takes a specific point in time state of a VMs you can revert from at any time. You can have several snapshots (points in time) in a VM and, depending on the changes that have occurred, you may decide to keep changes by deleting the snapshots or discard changes by reverting to a previous snapshot.
A snapshot is taken on a per-VM basis and can be used for different situations. When a new patch is released from a vendor for the guest OS running on a VM, if something goes wrong during the upgrade process, the VM can become unresponsive and sometimes the blue screen of death may be displayed, in the case of a Windows guest OS. What to do then? If the guest OS can't be recovered, the backup is the only lifeline ...
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