Curtis Preston wrote:
Unless you're coordinating with the OS, then taking a VMware snapshot and copying it is equivalent to pulling the power plug on a server. Will it power back up without corruption? 99.9% of the time, yes. Has anyone who has been in the biz for a while had a scenario where powercycling a box caused a corrupted OS disk? I'd say so.
Thats false.
Its the same thing as suspending a VM. When you restore the you can either restore it as if the power was shut off or resume it as if nothing had happened. Obviously the outside world has changed, so network connections, the time, etc, will have changed.
