Lab 12 Part 2 - Taking a snapshot of a virtual machine
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Lab 12 part 2. Taking a snapshot of a virtual machine This lesson discusses creating a snapshot. Snapshots are useful in that they allow you to delete files and make changes to your system. They can be done prior to applying a system patch or a system upgrade. It is important to remember snapshots take up a lot of storage; if they're not necessary ...
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Lab 12 part 2. Taking a snapshot of a virtual machine This lesson discusses creating a snapshot. Snapshots are useful in that they allow you to delete files and make changes to your system. They can be done prior to applying a system patch or a system upgrade. It is important to remember snapshots take up a lot of storage; if they're not necessary then it's essential to get rid of them.
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all right. Our next task is to take a snapshot
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virtual machine, and then we'll see how those work.
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So what I'm gonna do is go to my Window seven council
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and there's actually a snapshot button dedicated button where you could go to the VM menu and select snapshot from here.
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So go ahead and take a snapshot,
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and we'll call this one
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original
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desktop
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background.
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We're just gonna snap shot the virtual memory.
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Another option is to cool. Yes, the guest file system.
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What that means is, um
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this is
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when
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virtual machines are being sent
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two other hosts or other data stores.
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Basically, a snapshot of this type is used
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and quit gassing the file system slows everything down
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so that they,
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the virtual machine,
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just file and the contents of the memory
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shift over the network to the other host.
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We're gonna leave that unchecked for our purposes.
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Okay, so we click. Okay,
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and we'll see our progress along the bond here will take out a little bit for the
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to create the snapshot.
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We'll come back in just a moment.
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Okay? So snapshot just completed.
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Now what I'll do is
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personalized. My desktop.
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I'm going to pick the United States theme
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that we'll have a different background image.
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Picture a lighthouse there. So let's take another snapshot
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and we'll call this after
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background change
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and that's not shot will take a little while to complete a CZ. Well,
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meantime, I can go to my V MNU snapshot
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and then open up the snap shop manager.
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So I was doing a different test earlier. I have an older snapshot
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that I created before I deleted some files
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so you can start to see the usefulness of the snapshot. Here
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you can delete files. You can make changes to your system.
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Maybe, um,
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you do some snapshots before
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applying a patch or some kind of upgrade.
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Okay? And it's not such a ship,
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just about done. And there it is.
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So
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I've got my original desktop background,
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and after the background change,
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any extra description information would be here.
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So in order for us to see this in action,
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what I can do is go back to my original desktop background.
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Saul, Select that snapshot and click Go to
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gives you a little chance to back out. I'll say Yes,
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you know there was. When I reverse this snapshot was actually pretty quick.
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It only took a few seconds, and I can see that I'm clearly back
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to the configuration of my machine before I made the change to the background.
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It has a little bit of extra work at the end to copy any changes to the disk
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that have transpired since the last configuration change.
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Then once that's completed,
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I condone Revert back to
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the background change.
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Okay, so that's finished,
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and you'll notice that it changed the structure of
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Of where that you are here is a little bit
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so I can see which
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which
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snapshot I'm actually using, which is my original desktop. I'll go back to mine after background change so we can go back the other direction.
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Say yes to that,
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and this will take just a few seconds and we go back to
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snapshot that we that we took originally.
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So it's very easy to switch back and forth if you're doing some kind of testing and you don't want to
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go through complicated steps to undo something,
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snapshot
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is the way to go. You do need VM are tools installed
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in order to use this, however, so be aware of that.
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Okay, so now I don't want to use my snapshots and more. Um, actually want to delete some of these so I can select a single won't click delete,
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take a moment because it does have to delete a fair amount of data
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and the other option that we have
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if you're if you're done with all your snapshots is too
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delete. All
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Okay, So now I'd like to delete all my snapshots,
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so I'll just select any one of them and just say, delete all clicked lead. All
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tells me it removes all of them. Don't want to continue. Yes, I do.
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And this is when you're when you're done with all of your snapshot activity. You want to do this?
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If you keep snapshots around
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longer than you need to, they continue to grow
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on your storage
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eventually. If if this has left alone long enough and a lot of changes were happening to that system, then you will use up your all your available storage.
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So this is a typical thing that
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can but you And when you're in a production environment, you need to periodically
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look for the machines in your environment that have snapshots and then go find out if they're needed. If they're not needed, then you want to get rid of him.
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All right, that concludes. Lab number 12
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in lab 13.
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We'll actually be working with the V app, Virtual app.
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So we'll create one powered on and then, uh, shut it down and get rid of it.
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All right. Thank you. So you on lap 13?
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