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You can manage VMware snapshots in your virtual appliances, with easy-to-use buttons on the VM control panel. You can easily create a single snapshot before you make changes to your VM, and revert, or delete the snapshot afterwards. Abiquo only stores one snapshot at a time, but you can replace the current snapshot with a newer one. You can display VM snapshots on a widget on the Abiquo dashboard.

After you deploy a VM, to take a snapshot

1. Select the VM

2. On the VM control panel, click the camera take snapshot button.

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3. Enter a Name and an optional Description. 

4. Optionally, if the VM is powered on:

   1. To store the memory as part of the snapshot, select Include memory

   2. To prepare the disk for a backup, select Quiesce file system, which requires VMware tools on the VM. 

5. Optionally, set a date and time to automatically delete the snapshot, which requires privileges to Manage snapshot autodelete and Manage snapshot autodelete expiry date.

6. Click Accept

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After you create a snapshot, it will display on the Snapshots tab of the VM Details panel, and you can manage it from here. 

When you have a snapshot, if you take another snapshot, this will overwrite the existing snapshot because Abiquo only stores ONE snapshot at a time.

To replace the current snapshot:

1. Select the VM and take a new snapshot as described in Take a snapshot of a VM.

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To display snapshots on the dashboard,

1. Go to Home view

2. Edit a dashboard

3. Click Add widget

4. Select the widget for Virtual machine snapshots.

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If the user has the privilege to View enterprise snapshots list, this widget will display all of the snapshots in the user's tenant.

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To go directly to a VM with a snapshot, double-click on the snapshot entry.