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.

I am running a Hyper-V server and have several VMs that I have multiple snapshots based on what gets changed and/or updated to the VM.For example...HV01 - Sever 2008 StandardI take a snapshot ...

Windows Server 2016 instead makes change tracking a feature of Hyper-V itself, making it much easier for third-party backup vendors to support Hyper-V. Snapshots and checkpoints are dangerous for ...

Snapshots A common misconception is that Hyper-V snapshots are some form of backups -- they're definitely not. They're simply a way of capturing a snapshot of a VM at a given time and allows you to ...

Hyper-V Snapshots will enable automatic checkpoints that save the current state of a Hyper-V virtual machine. This way if a mistake happens, developers can always revert back to the previous ...

Ok, so one of the guys at our company expanded a hard drive on a Hyper-V client without merging all the snapshots first.<BR><BR>Suffice to say, it isn't good, and the way we had our backups set up ...

And HyperV supports replay or snapshot capability.” “While VMware does replay phenomenally, from our perspective we’d like to keep the replay on the SAN,” Goerlich says. “HyperV takes a ...

Software developers say Microsoft has made significant progress with HyperV and the product, once released, will likely elevate its reputation in the virtualization hypervisor market.

Backups in Hyper-V can sometimes be a bit shaky, due to a reliance on the underlying Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) system. Windows Server 2016 instead makes change tracking a feature of Hyper-V ...