10 ContentsCommon Reasons for Scheduling aSnapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Guidelines for CreatingSnapshot Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Enabling and Disabling SnapshotSchedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Usingthe Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Preparing Host Servers to Create theSnapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 143Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using theAdvanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Preparing Host Servers to Create theSnapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 147Creating the Snapshot Usingthe Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 151Snapshot Repository Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . 155Preparing Host Servers to Re-create aSnapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 157Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Rules and Guidelines for Performing aSnapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Protecting Against a FailedSnapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Previous Versions of theMD Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Starting a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . 159
