Release Notes

52 Dell Virtual Storage Manager: Installation Considerations and Local Data Protection | 2079-BP-V-VSM
7.2.1 Creating a snapshot
Follow this step-by-step process to create a snapshot:
1. From the virtual machine context sensitive menu, or its Actions dropdown menu, select Snapshots > Take
Snapshot.
2. Provide a Name and Description for the snapshot to enable easy identification of what a particular snapshot
contains.
3. Optionally, elect to include Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory (selected by default).
Including this is a business decision, and will be dictated by the need to have the virtual machines contents at
restore time. This option includes the contents of the memory of the virtual machine with the snapshot.
Note: This can extend the time it takes to create the snapshot while the contents of the virtual machines memory are
written to disk.
4. Optionally, elect to Quiesce guest file system. This causes the VMware Tools to invoke the Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service to quiesce I/O on the disk and hold them in memory while the snapshot is created.