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Abiquo 6.0 introduces a VMware Snapshot feature for VMs. This new feature offers the VMware snapshot directly to the VM user, with easy-to-use buttons on the VM control panel. This feature enables users to easily create a single snapshot before they make changes to their VM, and revert, or delete the snapshot afterwards. This feature greatly simplifies the use of VM snapshots and will save time for your System administrators. This feature replaces the VM snapshot functionality that was part of the Abiquo Backup feature. |
Abiquo 6.0 introduces a VMware Snapshot feature for VMs. This new feature offers the VMware snapshot directly to the VM user, with easy-to-use buttons on the VM control panel. This feature enables users to easily create a single snapshot before they make changes to their VM, and revert, or delete the snapshot afterwards. This feature greatly simplifies the use of VM snapshots and will save time for your System administrators. This feature replaces the VM snapshot functionality that was part of the Abiquo Backup feature.
Configure VM snapshots
The VMware snapshots feature has the following Abiquo properties, which you can set on the Abiquo API server. See Abiquo configuration properties
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abiquo.snapshot.autodelete.polling.minutes |
Time to wait between each check for expired snapshots. | |
abiquo.snapshot.autodelete.hours |
0
Time that a snapshot lives before it expires. |
abiquo.snapshot.autodelete.hours.limit |
Maximum snapshot lifetime that a privileged user can configure when they take a snapshot. |
To override the default values, you can also set these properties as Enterprise properties for a specific tenant. See Set Manage enterprise properties to store tenant details and metadata. credentials and properties
And a privileged user can override the properties for autodelete.hours when they create a snapshot.
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When you revert a VM to the snapshot, you will overwrite the current state of the VM and it will be lost.
If you restore a VM when it is powered on, after the restore, the VM will be in a powered off state.
You can select the option to suspend (pause) the VM while reverting, and if the snapshot has the VM memory, it will revert to a paused state. If the VM doesn't have memory, it will always be powered off.
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