Monday, October 10, 2011

VM Maintenance(virtual machine snap shot)



 SnaP sHOT VERY GOOD FEATURES OF vm WARE MACHINE..


To make the VM user familiar with VM manager and the practices to be followed while maintaining different machine states.




Snapshot Manager:- A typical VM Scenario represents multiple states of the machine/environment in form  of snapshots. These snapshots are being managed by an interface called Snapshot manager
 

Snapshot manager enables you mange VM states through a set of commands for which there are controls given in snapshot manager.

>Take Snapshot
>Go to
>Delete
>Clone
>Close
>Help



1.Taking a snapshot:- Taking a snap shot implies capturing a state of the machine at any point of time. This can be done through Take Snapshot  control given in snapshot manager. It basically captures the state of the machine and assigns name and description to it.


Steps Involved
a) Click on Take snapshot button.
b) Give appropriate name and description that best describes the sate.
c) Wait till the time status is shown as 100% completed.


2.Go To:-Once machine’s state has been captured any point of time,  current state of the machine can always be reverted to that state with the help of Go To. By doing so user would loose the current state of the machine.




Steps Involved

a)Select the state  to which current state is to be reverted
b)Click on Go To
c)Wait till the time state has been completely restored.


3.Delete

 



Steps Involved

a)Select the state which is to be deleted.
b)Click on Delete
c)Wait till the time state has been completely deleted.


4. Clone:
5. Help&Close


Practices to be followed for VM maintenance while executing Test packs

ü      Keep minimum last two snapshots of the machine’s to keep the data for previous two month’s test pack execution.




 


ü      To start pack execution for any month, install first available build of the month on the Pilot of the previous month.


 



ü      A Pilot build should always be installed on the Pilot of previous month’s Pilot.


                                       ***your comments is appreciable***

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