I was asked this question by a client recently...
Do you know if taking a server snapshot from a Vm will disrupt anything in production like a SharePoint Server user access?
The answer is the consulting 'drinking game' answer...It depends.
For one, if the server is being acquiesced when the snap shot is being taken. A
standalone VMware snapshot won’t acquiesce, but if a snapshot is being taken as
part of a backup program then all the database services on the server will be
paused and the DBs on that server will be inaccessible until all pending
transactions have been written and the snapshot has been committed; at [company name]I have one server where this takes almost 15 minutes.
Otherwise,
no... a snapshot will not impact SQL function unless the disk
with the virtual server is severely overtaxed – to that point where the guest VM
is probably unusable anyway.
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