On this page, you can find an explanation of how to create and manage snapshots in the Cloud Console.
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Snapshots page
To get to the Snapshots page on the Homepage you need tot select Storage from the VIRTUAL DATACENTER block and click the Snapshots TAB:
This action will redirect you to the Snapshots page where you can find all created Snapshots with their Headers, Create button, Search bar and Actions icon which opens a list of available management actions for the selected Snapshot:
Snapshots headers include:
- Name: shows the name of the Snapshots;
- Status: shows in which status Snapshots are;
- Size: shows Snapshot size. The size of the snapshot is equal to the size of the volume in which this Snapshot was created;
- Description: shows description to Snapshots;
- Created at: shows date when the Snapshots were created.
Actions icon opens the next list of available management actions:
- Delete - this option is for Snapshot removing.
So, from this page you can:
- review all created Snapshots;
- create more Snapshots;
- delete unnecessery Snapshots;
Create a Snapshot
To create a new Snapshot do the next:
- go to the Snapshots page and click the CREATE SNAPSHOT icon in the upper left corner:
- on the next opened Create Snapshot window specify:
- Name: in this field you set a name for the Snapshot, it can contain only Latin letters (a-z, A-Z), digits (0-9), hyphen (-), underscore (_) and must be at most 255 characters long.;
- Description: in this field you set a description for the Snapshot, it can include all letters, numbers or symbols and must be no bigger than 255 characters;
- Volume: in this you need to select volume from what you want to create a Snapshot:
After fields were specified, click on the CREATE button and the newly created Snapshot will be added to the Snapshots page:
Delete a Snapshot
To delete a Snapshot you need to do the following:
- identify this unnecessary Snapshot on the Snapshots page;
- click on the Actions icon
and select the Delete in the list of available options;
- on the next opened Confirmation window confirm the Snapshot deletion:
After these steps, the selected Snapshot will be deleted.
Manage Snapshots related to a specific VM
To find all Snapshots related to the Virtual Machine you need to do the following:
- open the Virtual Machine page - on the Homepage select the Virtual Machines from the VIRTUAL DATACENTER block:
- open the Virtual Machine details page - click on the Name of the corresponding Virtual Machine:
- open the Snapshots page of this VM- click on the SNAPSHOT TAB:
On this page you can find all created Snapshots from the Volumes that was attached to the corresponding VM:
As you can see in the screenshot above, we have no Snapshots associated with the Virtual Machine named testVm1.
But, recently we have created a Snapshot named testSn from the Volume named testVol (see instructions - Create a Snapshot) and now if we attach this Volume to our Virtual Machine, it will appear on this page.
To attach Volume you need to do the following:- switch to the VOLUMES TAB from theVirtual Machine details page and click the ATTACH VOLUME icon in the upper left corner:

- on the opened Attach volume window select the necessary Volumes and click on the ATTACH icon:
Now, if you switch again to the SNAPSHOTS TAB from theVirtual Machine details page you will see added Snapshots:
Now, all the Snapshots created from the Volume named testVol relate to the selected Virtual Machine named testVm1.
From this page you can also delete unnecessary Snapshot:
- identify this unnecessary Snapshot;
- click on the Actions icon
and select the Delete in the list of available options;
- on the next opened Confirmation window confirm Snapshot deletion:
After these steps, the selected Snapshot will be deleted.