{"id":9630,"date":"2009-05-08T17:01:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2009-05-08T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"hyper-v-virtual-machine-snapshots-_are_-supported-in-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9630","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-V Virtual Machine Snapshots _Are_ Supported In Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just read this <a title=\"post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2009\/04\/23\/should-virtual-machine-snapshots-be-used-in-production-hyper-v.aspx\">post<\/a> by Ben Armstrong.\u00a0 I find this interesting because last Summer PSS were very clear with me that they were not supported at all in production.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 There\u2019s too many gotchyas with snapshots in production so I say \u201csteer clear\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just read this post by Ben Armstrong.\u00a0 I find this interesting because last Summer PSS were very clear with me that they were not supported at all in production.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 There\u2019s too many gotchyas with snapshots in production so I say \u201csteer clear\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019ve just read this post by Ben Armstrong. 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