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Can I recover a VM if a snapshot has been performed prior to the VM being corrupted?
If a VM becomes corrupt and the OS will not start after patching it, can I recover the VM if I took a snapshot of it prior to patching the VM? How would I restore the snapshot? Will it restore to the state it was in prior to patching it? How much space does a snapshot generally use up? We are running vSphere 5.5.
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Tom Jacob Chirayil
If the VM is a domain controller, don't revert the snapshot. The USN number will go out of sequence and then you will have to demote and promote it back as the domain controller
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Some systems that I have created snapshots for last Thurs were having issues over the weekend. Come to find out, snapshots that were created were taking up disk space. I removed the snapshots from snapshot manager, which i believe fixed the issues with these servers. Is there anything more I need to do other than deleting the snapshot's I have created? Is it best practice to remove these snapshots after a day? Do these snapshots write to disk on the server, or on the SAN the server resides on?
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