Saving an instance of a virtual machine to disk in order to return to that point at a later time. Snapshots are taken for backup as well as for duplication to other servers. The content of memory, ...

Snapshot files can grow to the same size as the original base disk file, which is why the provisioned storage size of a virtual machine increases by an amount equal to the original size of the virtual ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.

Here’s how you can revert to a virtual machine snapshot in VirtualBox for Windows. 1. Make sure your virtual machine is shut down. 2. Select your virtual machine from the list. 3. Go to the snapshots ...

Aside from third-party solutions, snapshots are the best option for backing up your EC2 virtual machines, says Brien Posey, who explains how managing the process is something of an art form. Unless ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. Like many other organizations, school districts have virtualized their servers over the past several years. At Camas School ...

LAWRENCE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that its Compass ® enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup ...

It’s time to reign in the virtual machine revolution taking over your network. In the first part of a series of testing-based articles looking at the various virtual machine management tools available ...