10 Contents
10 Configuration: PremiumFeature—Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . 145
Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 146
Common Reasons for Scheduling a
Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Guidelines for Creating Snapshot
Schedules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Enabling and Disabling Snapshot
Schedules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 150
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 154
Creating the Snapshot Using
the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names. . . . . . . 157
Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 162
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . 164
Snapshot Rollback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Rules and Guidelines for Performing a
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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