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Revision as of 20:48, 21 April 2014
Snapshots allow you to save the state of a virtual machine for backup or templating purposes. For VMs installed from templates, live snapshots can be performed where the VM does not have to be rebooted; on operating installs from ISO, only cold snapshots are supported (snapshot after VM is turned offline).
Snapshots are billed hourly for storage space only, at $0.02 per GB per month (the first 20 GB of usage is currently free, but this is subject to change).
Creating a snapshot
Creating a snapshot in Luna Node Dynamic is easy. Simply go to the Virtual Machines tab, select your VM, and enter a snapshot label in the snapshot box. If you are snapshotting a VM that was installed from an ISO image, you will need to shut down the VM before snapshotting.
Provisioning from the snapshot
You can provision new instances from the snapshot, or re-image existing instances using the snapshot.
