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Jack is a system administrator in a data center that operates thousands of virtual servers running on Microsoft’s virtualization platform, Hyper-V. Jack’s manager recommends taking a snapshot backup rather than a full backup of the virtual machines running on Hyper-V to reduce backup time. Which native feature available in Hyper-V Manager should he use in this situation?

Explanation

Hyper-V checkpoints capture a virtual machine at a specific point in time and are the feature used in Hyper-V Manager for snapshot-style recovery. Microsoft formerly called checkpoints “snapshots”; Hyper-V Replication is a separate disaster-recovery replication capability.

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