Environments are built and managed using blueprints and snapshots. A blueprint acts as a container for an environment's snapshots, serving as a container for efficiently creating and managing environments. With blueprints, you can consistently set up and modify environments based on predefined configurations.
Snapshots allow you to capture the exact state of an environment at a specific point in time. Snapshots back up the entire environment as it is in its current state. This means a complete replica of all of your virtual machines, the RAM, CPU and disk allocations, the network configurations, users, installed software, documents, and settings at the time the snapshot was taken. Even the current RAM and disk states are backed up, so any running services and applications you had when you started the snapshot will be saved in that state.
To capture snapshots:
- Click Infrastructure and then click the Environments List tab from the left menu. Then select the environment for which you want to capture a snapshot. Note that the environment needs to be active.
- Click the Take Snapshot button from the right menu.
- Provide a name and optional description for the snapshot and, when relevant, a new blueprint name.
Note: The environment’s blueprint will be set to the new blueprint name.
- Click the Take Snapshot button to create the snapshot.
You can save five snapshots per blueprint. If you exceed that number, you'll see a red notification at the bottom of the Take Snapshot screen informing you that the maximum number of snapshots has been reached. You can save the new snapshot to a new blueprint or take the snapshot in the default environment blueprint, which will delete the oldest snapshot automatically. Alternatively, you can manually delete a snapshot of your choosing before taking the snapshot.