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

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

2. Look for the virtual machine UUID (identifier) to submit the snapshot request (Optional):

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   vss-cli compute vm ls --filter name torvalds uuid name ------------------------------------ ----------------------- 50125399-17eb-f466-cef3-61592022569a 1712Q-cocky_torvalds_2 50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb 1610Q-cocky_torvalds_15

   
   

3. Use the vss-cli compute vm set <uuid> snapshot command to submit a snapshot request as follows:

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   vss-cli compute vm set 50124670{VmName-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbbor-Uuid} snapshot --action mk \ --description "Before difficult upgrade" --timestamp "2018-02-19 09:00" --lifetime 72

   
   

4. 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_name vm_uuid ---- ----------------------- ----------------------- --------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------ 103 2018-02-09 10:09:32 EST 2018-02-09 10:09:32 EST Submitted 1610Q-cocky_torvalds_15 50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb

   
   

5. You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
6. For more information about how to Revert or Delete a Snapshot using the CLI, please refer to the CLI documentation here.