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vApps ............................................................................................................................... 92
Using the Manage vApps dialog box in XenCenter ...................................................... 93
Backing Up and Restoring XenServer Hosts and VMs .......................................................... 93
Backing up Virtual Machine metadata ....................................................................... 94
Backing up single host installations .................................................................... 95
Backing up pooled installations ......................................................................... 95
Backing up XenServer hosts ...................................................................................... 95
Backing up VMs ........................................................................................................ 96
VM Snapshots .................................................................................................................. 97
Regular Snapshots .................................................................................................... 97
Quiesced Snapshots .................................................................................................. 97
Snapshots with memory ........................................................................................... 97
Creating a VM Snapshot ........................................................................................... 97
Creating a snapshot with memory ............................................................................. 98
To list all of the snapshots on a XenServer pool .......................................................... 98
To list the snapshots on a particular VM .................................................................... 98
Restoring a VM to its previous state .......................................................................... 99
Deleting a snapshot .......................................................................................... 99
Snapshot Templates ................................................................................................ 100
Creating a template from a snapshot ............................................................... 100
Exporting a snapshot to a template ................................................................. 100
Advanced Notes for Quiesced Snapshots .......................................................... 101
VM Protection and Recovery ........................................................................................... 102
Naming convention for VM archive folders ............................................................... 102
Coping with machine failures .......................................................................................... 102
Member failures ..................................................................................................... 103
Master failures ....................................................................................................... 103
Pool failures ........................................................................................................... 104
Coping with Failure due to Configuration Errors ........................................................ 104
Physical Machine failure .......................................................................................... 104
Monitoring and Managing XenServer ........................................................... 106