One feature that is no longer available when using the independent mode is to take a memory snapshot when triggering a snapshot creation. When you use the independent disk mode option you can of course still use features like vMotion and Storage vMotion. So if you do not want to loose data when changing the power state of the virtual machine, you should take care to use the Independent Persistent mode! When you power off, reset or revert the virtual machine to a snapshot all changes to the disk are discarded! Using the nonpersistent mode enables you to restart a virtual machine with a virtual disk in the same state every time.
You have two options when you change the disk mode to independent:Ĭhanges are written permanently to the disk (same behaviour like conventional disks) select the hard disk you want to exclude from snapshots.right-click the virtual machine and select “Edit settings”.delete any existing snapshots before you change the disk mode.To exclude a virtual disk from snapshot operations, you have to set it to independent mode: In this case you can exclude the partition with the database from snapshots and backup the SQL DB with other tools (eg. an IO intensive SQL server you want to backup, but where there are so many changes that it is not possible to close the snapshot within a reasonable time after the backup completed. It is possible to exclude a dedicated virtual disk (vmdk) from snapshot operations.Ī usecase for this is eg.
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