Henry Robinsson, a product manager at VMware, just posted a topic on the VMTN community forums requestion feedback on VMware snapshots. (Thanks William Lam for pointing this out) I am uncertain what this feedback will lead into but usually it is used as guidance for the direction a specific product or feature is heading into.
If you want to be part of the people who directed a VMware feature into a specific direction I would suggest heading over to the survey linked below and fill it out!
I would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to respond to this survey. Your response will guide our future product offerings in this area. The survey is about 20 questions and should take you just a few minutes to fill out.
I will post a summary of the results after suitable feedback.
Regards,
Henry Robinson
VMware Product Management
The URL to this survey is: http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?B094F8E2B1F2E0E6B6
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For the love of $DIETY can everyone please ask for the button that commits a snapshot back to be renamed from “delete” to something more sensible!
Yes I agree, “delete” doesn’t fit.
1. Make time snapshot was taken more obvious.
2. Allow you to specify automatic expiration of the snapshot in case you forget!
Filled in the survey!
Well, “delete” does not fit – but what would be better…
collapse or accumulate?
Just completed the survey.
What about “commit”?
you are really doing a commit on that delta, right?
What about “merge”?
We are really doing a split, while making snapshot, so the opposite action is “merge”. Split/Merge pair is used very often, so it’s known not only by native speakers.