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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reverting to a current virtual machine snapshot


The whole idea behind taking a snapshot is to save the current state of the virtual machine so that it will remain unaffected by the changes you intend to make. In a situation where you would want to discard the changes you made and return to the saved state of the virtual machine, the Revert to Current Snapshot operation is performed.

Tip

You will not need the snapshot manager to perform the revert operation.

How to do it...

The following procedure guides you through the steps required to revert to the current snapshot:

  1. Right-click on the VM and click on Revert to Current Snapshot:

  2. Click on Yes to confirm the revert operation:

How it works...

Reverting to a current snapshot will discard its delta contents. The contents of the delta file are permanently lost unless it is saved in a subsequent snapshot. That is, if the current snapshot isn't parenting a child snapshot, then its delta data is lost forever.

In our example (refer to the table from the previous...