146 Chapter 7 FIndIng And ImAgIng VIrtuAl enVIronments snapshots AVM snapshot captures the state of aVM at a particular point intime.Thesnapshotincludestheconfiguration,diskdata,and thecurrentstate.Thepurposeistoallowtheusertoreverttothe snapshot in the event something happens to theVM to cause it nottoworkproperly.Thisprincipleissimilartoarestorepointin theWindowsOS.AccordingtoVMware'sKBarticle1015180,when usingasnapshot,theconfigurationsettingsrevertedinclude,but are not limited to previous IP addresses, DNS names, Universal UniqueIdentifier(UUID),andguestOSpatchversions.Snapshot data files are stored as files and are usually located in the same folderasthevirtualmachinebydefault.However,iftheVMwas imported with snapshots, they are stored in their own folder, andifthevirtualmachinehasnosnapshots,thevirtualmachine snapshotsettingallowsthesnapshotstobestoredinaspecified folder.Thefunctionsassociatedwithsnapshotsareasfollows: · CreateSnapshotcreatesanewsnapshotandupdatesthecurrent snapshot.