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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Teardown - Getting Started"
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sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-teardown"
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We now have a fully functional virtual machine we can use for basic
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web development. But now let us say it is time to switch gears, maybe work
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on another project, maybe go out to lunch, or maybe just time to go home.
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How do we clean up our development environment?
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# Teardown
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We now have a fully functional virtual machine we can use for basic
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web development. But now let us say it is time to switch gears, maybe work
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on another project, maybe go out to lunch, or maybe just time to go home.
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How do we clean up our development environment?
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With Vagrant, you _suspend_, _halt_, or _destroy_ the guest machine.
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Each of these options have pros and cons. Choose the method that works
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best for you.
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**Suspending** the virtual machine by calling `vagrant suspend` will
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save the current running state of the machine and stop it. When you are
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ready to begin working again, just run `vagrant up`, and it will be
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resumed from where you left off. The main benefit of this method is that it
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is super fast, usually taking only 5 to 10 seconds to stop and start your
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work. The downside is that the virtual machine still eats up your disk space,
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and requires even more disk space to store all the state of the virtual
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machine RAM on disk.
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**Halting** the virtual machine by calling `vagrant halt` will gracefully
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shut down the guest operating system and power down the guest machine.
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You can use `vagrant up` when you are ready to boot it again. The benefit of
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this method is that it will cleanly shut down your machine, preserving the
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contents of disk, and allowing it to be cleanly started again. The downside is
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that it'll take some extra time to start from a cold boot, and the guest machine
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still consumes disk space.
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**Destroying** the virtual machine by calling `vagrant destroy` will remove
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all traces of the guest machine from your system. It'll stop the guest machine,
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power it down, and remove all of the guest hard disks. Again, when you are ready to
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work again, just issue a `vagrant up`. The benefit of this is that _no cruft_
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is left on your machine. The disk space and RAM consumed by the guest machine
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is reclaimed and your host machine is left clean. The downside is that
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`vagrant up` to get working again will take some extra time since it
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has to reimport the machine and re-provision it.
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## Next Steps
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You have successfully suspended, halted, and destroyed your virtual environment
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with Vagrant. Read on to learn how to
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[rebuild the environment](/intro/getting-started/rebuild.html).
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