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For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.

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ITS Private Cloud Portal

1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca

2. Look for the VM to edit and click Image Modified

3. Click on the Snapshot button:

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2. Select the date and time the snapshot will taken at:

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2. Select the lifetime for the snapshot (72 hours max):

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2. Click OK and you should see a snapshot request number at the bottom of the screen:

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2. You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.

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Command-Line Interface

The following steps should guide you through the process of requesting a virtual machine snapshot using the either viahttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

1. Run vss

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1. -cli configure to configure your VSS credentials. If you have already done this, please go to next step.

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vss-cli compute vm ls -f name=Front

moref    name             folder.path                  cpu_count    memory_gb  power_state    ip_address
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vm-2183  2004T-Frontend2  VSS > Development > Dev02            2            2  poweredOff
vm-2185  2004T-Frontend3  VSS > Development > Dev03            1            1  poweredOn

1. Use the vss-cli compute vm set <name-or-vm-id> snapshot command to submit a snapshot request as follows:

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   vss-cli compute vm set --wait {name-or-vm-id} snapshot --action mk \ --description "Before difficult upgrade" --timestamp "2020-04-27 16:53" \ --lifetime 72

2. Once the request is submitted, you can follow up the request status with the vss-cli request snapshot command:

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   vss-cli request snapshot ls --sort created_on,desc id created_on updated_on status vm_moref vm_name action snapshot.from_date snapshot.to_date ---- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------- ---------- --------------- -------- --------------------------- --------------------------- 10 2020-04-27 Mon 16:53:34 EDT 2020-04-28 Tue 16:52:00 EDT PROCESSED vm-2183 2004T-Frontend2 DONE 2020-04-27 Mon 16:53:00 EDT 2020-04-28 Tue 16:53:00 EDT

3. You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.

4. For more information about how to Revert or Delete a Snapshot using the CLI, please refer to the CLI documentation here.

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