Testing vCenter Protect standard at the moment and having difficulties with the snapshot facility prior to deployment, My policy is set to take a snapshot prior to deployment and hold it for 4 days but the snapshot never occurs. Setup is as follows
Machine is added to my test group as a Hosted VM
Admin Credentials set - These Credentials can manually take a snapshot of a server and set as default in the Credentials Manager
Policy has a custom scan and deployment template (just to enable all windows update items to be scanned and deployed and Snapshot taken)
Tried using the default VM standard template, still no Snapshot occurs.
I can scan machines and deploy updates fine. Looking at the version's I should still be able to take a snapshot with the standard version
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-protect/compare.html
Any help appreciated ! cheers