Virtual machines powered by VMware vSphere have strong features that give software environments that are flexible, adaptable, and effective. The ability to take snapshots and utilize those images to restore a virtual machine to a prior state when necessary is one of vSphere's most helpful capabilities. But there are limits to this technology.
Restore VM with delta.vmdk
The following walkthrough is using the new HTML5 vSphere client in vSphere 6.5. The same workflow is true for vSphere 6.7, vSphere 7.0, 7.0U1 and 7.0U2.
VM recovery guide
- Right-click the VM you want to create a snapshot on and select Snapshots > Take Snapshot.
- In the Take Snapshot dialog box, you can name the snapshot and create a description for the snapshot if you want to add more details.
- Click Create to create the snapshot, and then you can see the relevant task kick off in the vCenter Recent Tasks pane.
Learn more about VM recovery here.
