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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware's vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware. If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you.VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM. Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.1 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.

Note

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...