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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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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