Managing Snapshots

In Parallels Server Bare Metal, you can save the current state of a virtual machine by creating a snapshot. You can then continue working in your virtual machine and return to the saved state any time you wish. For example, you can make use of snapshots in the following cases:

• You are going to configure an application with a lot of settings. In this case, you may first wish to play with settings before applying them to your application. So, you create a snapshot before starting to experiment with the application settings.
• You are involved in a large development project. In this case, you may wish to mark milestones in the development process by creating a snapshot after each milestone. If anything goes wrong, you can easily revert to the previous milestone and start the development anew.

In Parallels Server Bare Metal, you can manage snapshots as follows:

• create a new snapshot of a virtual machine
• list the existing snapshots of a particular virtual machine
• revert to a snapshot
• remove a snapshot

All these operations are described in the following subsections in detail.