From the course: Windows Server 2016: High Availability
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How to create a VM checkpoint - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: High Availability
How to create a VM checkpoint
- [Narrator] Checkpoints give you a point in time snapshot of your virtual machine in case it doesn't reboot after applying updates or installing new hardware. We are in our failover cluster manager and we're going to add a checkpoint to our Data2 server. So what we'll do, is we'll right click on that server and choose manage. And what it does is it opens up Hyperview Manager, and takes us right to our server. From here, we're going to choose to add a checkpoint. So we right click on the server and choose checkpoint. And we see off to the right, that here it is creating a checkpoint. And it shows its status as it builds the checkpoint file. Checkpoints are used a little differently than most people think. A lot of people think they can create a checkpoint and just leave it there, and at anytime they want they'll go ahead and use the checkpoint to go back in time. But the problem with that is, is the checkpoint file lives outside of the virtual machine file. So, what that means, is…
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