This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'New-VirtualDiskSnapshot', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Creates a new snapshot of the specified virtual disk.
New-VirtualDiskSnapshot [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-TargetStoragePoolName <String>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -FriendlyName <String> -VirtualDiskUniqueId
<String[]> [<CommonParameters>]
New-VirtualDiskSnapshot [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-TargetStoragePoolName <String>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -FriendlyName <String> -VirtualDiskName <String[]>
[<CommonParameters>]
New-VirtualDiskSnapshot [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-TargetStoragePoolName <String>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -FriendlyName <String> -InputObject <CimInstance[]>
[<CommonParameters>]
New-VirtualDiskSnapshot [-VirtualDiskFriendlyName] <String[]> [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-TargetStoragePoolName <String>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -FriendlyName
<String> [<CommonParameters>]
The New-VirtualDiskSnapshot cmdlet creates a new snapshot of the specified virtual disk.
This cmdlet is not needed when using the Storage Spaces subsystem.
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Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=307009
Get-VirtualDisk
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EXAMPLE 1
PS C:\>New-VirtualDiskSnapshot -VirtualDiskFriendlyName "SQLData5" -TargetStoragePoolName "Snapshots"
This example creates a snapshot of the Virtual Disk object. The cmdlet returns the resultant snapshot as a new Virtual Disk object.