VMware snapshots can be a lifesaver when you're upgrading or patching applications and servers. If you oversee a virtual environment, it's imperative that you know what snapshots are and how they work. A disk snapshot is a copy of a VM disk file at a certain point in time; it preserves the disk file system and system memory of your VM. You can revert to a snapshot in the event that something goes
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