And Dave? He called her later that week: “You restored from a delta? I didn’t think that was possible without losing data.”
She had to restore from the delta —not the base. restore vmware from delta vmdk
She powered off the test VM, detached the old broken chain, attached the restored VMDK to the original FinServe-07, and powered it on. And Dave
It was 2:00 AM on a Saturday when Maria’s phone buzzed with a severity-one alert. The finance department’s main ERP VM, , had crashed hard. The snapshot chain had been growing for 467 days—longer than anyone had been on the team. detached the old broken chain
Maria’s manager whispered over the bridge line: “Just roll back to the snapshot. We lose a day, fine.”