Ars Technica

NetApp VMware and snapshots

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...
TechRepublic

How to create a new AMI from a snapshot and launch a new VM

How to create a new AMI from a snapshot and launch a new VM Your email has been sent AWS jargon Examine the original EC2 machine. Take a snapshot and make a new AMI Launch a new instance Clean up Nick ...
Ars Technica

KVM, ZVols and consistent VM Snapshots.

I run a ZFS Nas at home and have just bought additional hardware for a KVM hypervisor. The plan is to run VMs on a ZVOL shared to the hypervisor machine. If I want to create snapshots there are a ...
MCPmag

Ride the Virtual Time Machine

Explore and exploit a bevy of great new features in VMware Workstation 5.0 to roll back OS changes and even create virtual machines off different system "snapshots." If you’re not familiar with ...
Business Wire

opvizor Launches Free Product Snapwatcher to Detect Broken Snapshots in VMWare

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--opvizor just launched a new product called “Snapwatcher” to discover any hidden, invalid or broken snapshots in VMware in order to free up more disk space. “81% of all VMware ...