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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787127418
Length 574 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mathias Meyenburg Mathias Meyenburg
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Cedric Rajendran Cedric Rajendran
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5 3. Using vSphere Host Profiles 4. Using ESXi Image Builder 5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy 6. Using vSphere Standard Switches 7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches 8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore 9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage 10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage 11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability 13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager 15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility 16. Using vSphere Management Assistant 17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot

In complex use cases, one may require having multiple levels and hierarchies in a snapshot tree. This is specifically applicable in a development life cycle, wherein each change may need to be backtracked to ascertain which change triggered an issue. This is done through the Revert to option.

This methodology allows granular control over switching to any arbitrary snapshot in a snapshot tree, as opposed to moving up one level at a time with the Revert to the Latest Snapshot option. The virtual machine returns to the original state at which the snapshot was taken.

How to do it...

The following procedure outlines the steps to reverting or switching to a specific snapshot:

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