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 ...

Hyper-V Manager If you're running the full GUI version of Windows on the host, close Hyper-V Manager (see Fig. 1) when it's not being used, ... A common misconception is that Hyper-V snapshots are ...

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 ...

“HyperV takes a snapshot the same way VMware does. If you are using HyperV, you can use and recover those snapshots and design your workflow around those snapshots in the same way for both ...

Windows-Now blogger Robert McLaws details a horror story that no network guy or gal ever wants to face. He was using beta Hyper-V software in the wild when two hard drives in his datacenter failed ...

Hyper-V snapshots provide a local recovery point – for example, to revert a failed upgrade – not for backup or disaster recovery. VM migration.

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.