Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...

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 ...

I am looking for best practices or just other ideas on how folks use ZVOLs with VMware. Historically I have created large ZVOLs, served them up over iSCSI, added them as datastores, and placed ...