This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Restore-VMSnapshot', 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.
Restores a virtual machine checkpoint.
Restore-VMSnapshot [-Name] <String> [-VMName] <String> [-AsJob] [-ComputerName <String[]>] [-Passthru] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Restore-VMSnapshot [-VM] <VirtualMachine> [-AsJob] [-Passthru] -Name <String> [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Restore-VMSnapshot [-VMSnapshot] <VMSnapshot[]> [-AsJob] [-Passthru] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
The Restore-VMSnapshot cmdlet restores a virtual machine checkpoint.
Note: In Windows Server 2012 R2, virtual machine snapshots were renamed to virtual machine checkpoints. For clarity, this document will refer to virtual machine snapshots as
checkpoints.
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Get-VMSnapshot
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Example 1
PS C:\>Restore-VMSnapshot –Name 'Base image' –VMName TestVM
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Restore-VMSnapshot will restore checkpoint "Base image".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"): Y
Restores checkpoint Base image of virtual machine TestVM.
Example 2
PS C:\>Get-VM | Foreach-Object { $_ | Get-VMSnapshot | Sort CreationTime | Select -Last 1 | Restore-VMSnapshot -Confirm:$false }
Applies the most recent checkpoint on all virtual machines with no confirmation prompts.