Committing to Snapshots

[wd300]

The more I read about snapshots the more confused I get. If you have a number of snapshots on a virtual machine and you are satisfied nothing went wrong and you want to commit the snapshots so they are gone do you use "revert" or do you "delete" them or what?

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

you would use "delete all".  Which will consolidate all the snapshots. Revert, means going back to a point in time.

[idle-jam]

"delete" would be the right option to commit the snapshot. revert will you bring you back to the initial point before the snapshot is being created.

[a_p_]

IMO instead of "Delete" and "Delete All" the buttons should be named "Commit" and "Commit All". This would make things clearer.

André

EDIT: Be careful with "Delete All" if you are running ESX(i) 4 prior to Update 2. With multiple snapshots, you may need a lot of free disk space for this.