What is Virtual Machine Snapshot?

Definition of Virtual Machine Snapshot

Virtual Machine Snapshot is actually a snapshot of state of virtual machine at any specific instance of time.

How Virtual Machine Snapshot does works?

Virtual Machine Snapshot is an image of virtual machine’s state which is taken at any particular instance of time in order to maintain the data on disk and configuration information of the virtual machine.

How and where Virtual Machine Snapshot is used?

Virtual Machine Snapshot of a state is used to view, maintain and restore the state of virtual machine to any previous snapshotted state.