Snapshot Best Practices

For ease of image management, you can do the following tasks:

• Create a software profile for software images, and keep the description up to date.

• Create a staging server for preparing images and taking snapshots. The server can be flexed in or out as required and will go down for snapshot.

• Use an image naming scheme to keep track of versions of a snapshot.

• Create images based on the role of the machine, for example, web server, database server, and so on.

• Remove unused images when possible to free storage space.