{"id":1808,"date":"2015-10-30T20:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enseva.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2015-10-31T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T13:26:27","slug":"checkpoint-enhancements-for-private-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"CheckPoint Enhancements for Private Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Azure Enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today Enseva rolled out enhancements for it&#8217;s private Azure cloud platform providing customers with enhanced checkpoint (aka: snapshot) management. Previously customers could create a single checkpoint, roll back to a previously generated checkpoint and delete checkpoints no longer needed. The enhancements brought online today allow users to create and manage multiple checkpoints for more complicated maintenance tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The checkpoint functions previously found at the bottom of the virtual machine dashboard have been moved to a dedicated checkpoint management tab found at the top of each virtual machine management window. From within this tab, multiple checkpoints can be created and deleted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint-1024x774.png\" alt=\"Azure CheckPoint\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint-1024x774.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint-640x484.png 640w, https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint-940x711.png 940w, https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-CheckPoint.png 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Checkpoint Best Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Checkpoints (aka: snapshots) are commonplace for quickly creating point-in-time copies of a virtual machines data and are unfortunately often times marketed as a valid backup solution. This is an incorrect and very dangerous proposition. Checkpoints should not be used as a long term backup mechanism.<\/li>\n<li>Checkpoints are best leverage during major upgrades or virtual machine changes for the purposes of facilitating\u00a0complete recovery in the event of a problem without the need to perform a full restore from backups. \u00a0Leverage multiple checkpoint if needed to complete more complicated or multi-staged upgrades.<\/li>\n<li>Do not keep long Checkpoint chains. \u00a0Large numbers of Checkpoints can\u00a0degrade disk performance.<\/li>\n<li>Checkpoints will consume extra disk space to maintain delta information from before and after the checkpoint creation.<\/li>\n<li>It is not recommended to keep checkpoints for longer than 24-72 hours. \u00a0Checkpoints on virtual machines with lots of data change can\u00a0degrade disk performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Enhancements Today Enseva rolled out enhancements for it&#8217;s private Azure cloud platform providing customers with enhanced checkpoint (aka: snapshot) management. Previously customers could create a single checkpoint, roll back to a previously generated checkpoint and delete checkpoints no longer needed. The enhancements brought online today allow users to create and manage multiple checkpoints for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}