VMware virtual machine recovery in vSphere.Restoring a snapshot will affect the virtual hard drives that are connected to your VM, as the entire state of the virtual hard drive will be reverted as well. When you restore a snapshot, VM settings are restored, as well as all the configuration from XML file.The VM in question is a mail server (running MDaemon) which is in production so uptime is an issue. I belive the best approach to resolve this issue is by cloning the VM via the Command Line using vmkfstools. I have a VM which has mulitple Snapshots which have failed to be consolidated via the snapshot manager.