On this panel, you can lock and disable snapshots. You can also set options for snapshots when powering off.
If you do not want the ability to take snapshots of the virtual machine then you can select the option to disable snapshots. The virtual machine cannot have an existing snapshot in order to select this option.
To disable the feature to take snapshots for this virtual machine, check the Disable snapshots check box.
You can view the date when the snapshot of the virtual machine was created to identilfy if this is the version of the snapshot you want to lock. Locking the snapshot prevents it from being updated so that you cannot accidentally overwrite it with a new snapshot.
To lock a snapshot, check the Lock this snapshot check box.
You can specify the way snapshots are handled when you power off the virtual machine.
Options when powering off include:
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