There can be confusion in terminology with Hyper-V snapshot vs checkpoint. While Hyper-V checkpoints were previously referred to as snapshots, the new reference to the technology is referred to as checkpoints moving forward. Hyper-V snapshots referred to the “standard” checkpoint as it captured the memory state along with the disk contents. This can lead to consistency problems with systems that replicate data. Snapshots are a term used in the VMware ecosystem to refer to the comparable capability to capture point-in-time state data.