Snapshots are useful when performing system updates. If an update goes awry, you can choose to revert the snapshot to a previous point in time.

Please refer to the steps below on the instructions for creating a volume snapshot. Note that if the virtual machine you are working with has more than one volume, you might want to snapshot every volume that may be affected by an update.

1. Sign-in to the VHI dashboard.

2. Click on the Compute icon and click on Volumes.

3. Refer to the "Attached to" tab which lists the virtual machine that is associated with a respective volume. In the example image below, the volume "Demo/Windows Server 2022..." is associated with a virtual machine named "Demo" :

4. Click on the volume associated with the virtual machine that you wish to take a snapshot for. Once you have clicked on the volume, a fly-out pane will appear which shows the details and properties of the volume. Click on Create snapshot to create a point-in-time snapshot of the virtual machine.

5. Once the snapshot has been created, click on the Snapshots tab to view the snapshot (and any other previous snapshots). You can view additional details on the snapshot by clicking on the > icon.

6. To revert the snapshot, click on the ... icon and choose Revert to snapshot.