Using snapshots
Snapshots are a point in time to which you can revert a virtual machine and changes made to the virtual machine after creating the snapshot will be discarded. For example, snapshots are useful when you are installing or upgrading software on a virtual machine. If the installation or upgrade goes wrong, you can easily revert to the time the last snapshot was taken to get back to the state before you started the installation or upgrade. If you have verified that the installation or upgrade was successful, you should remove the snapshot, because snapshots use valuable space in your datastores and decrease the performance of your virtual machine.
Note
Snapshots are not backups!
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