In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget. The public cloud ...

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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 ...

If VirtualBox powers your virtual machines, start taking advantage of the snapshot feature today. Virtual machines (VMs) revolutionized the data center. With the ability to easily spin up a machine ...