Create a virtual machine checkpoint

- [Voiceover] Checkpoints in virtual machines give you…a point-in-time snapshot of your virtual machine…in case it doesn't reboot after applying updates…or installing new hardware.…Many times we have to reboot our virtual machines…because we need to run Windows updates or we need to do…some other installation that requires a reboot.…But there's a risk in rebooting virtual machines,…and that is sometimes they get hung up…and won't reboot cleanly.…It'd be great if we could go back in time to when the server…was running correctly, and we can now do that.…

So, we'll start off in Hyper-V Manager,…and we'll highlight one of our virtual machines,…and we'll right-click on it, and we'll choose checkpoint.…On the right-hand side you can see that it is creating…a checkpoint, and you can see the percentage of how long…it's going to be before it gets to 100%,…and then it's all done.…At that point we can reboot our virtual machine,…and we don't have to worry as much that it won't come…back up again.…So, one of the questions would be why don't we always…