On this page, you can find an explanation of how to create, edit, delete Snapshots and how to create Volumes from the Snapshots in the Cloud Console.
To get to the Snapshots page, select Storage from the VIRTUAL DATACENTER block in the side-bar menu and click the Snapshots TAB:
On this page 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:
Actions icon opens the next list of available management actions:
There are two ways to create, edit and delete Snapshots:
In this article we will explain the first way - to manage Snapshots from the Snapshots page. Information about the second one you can find in the next article - VM’s Snapshots.
To create new Snapshot from the Snapshots page, do the following:
Snapshot, created from the volume with “in-use”, status can contain corrupted data.
After these steps, the newly created Snapshot will be added to the Snapshots page:
Also, if the Snapshot was created from the Volume that had been attached to some VM, this Shapshot will be displayed on the SNAPSHOTS TAB on the Virtual Machine details page:
To create a Volume from the selected Snapshot, do the following:
After these steps, the newly created Volume will be added to the Volumes page with the status available:
How to manage Volumes, you can find in the next articles:
Volumes;
VM’s Volumes.
To edit the Snapshot from the Snapshots page, do the following:
After these steps, the selected Snapshot will be updated.
To delete the Snapshot from the Snapshots page, do the following:
After these steps, the selected Snapshot will be deleted.