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To request a snapshot for your VM, please use one of the following methods:
Use the VSS Portal - Request How-to Create Virtual Machine Snapshot
Use the VSS Command Line Interface
Use the ITS Private Cloud RESTful API
Reverting to a Snapshot
To revert a VM to (or from) a specific snapshot, please use one of the following options:
Use the VSS Command Line Interface
Use the ITS Private Cloud RESTful API
Send an email to vss(at)eis.utoronto.caHow-to Revert to Virtual Machine Snapshot
Deleting a Snapshot
To delete a snapshot for your VM, please use one of the following methods:
Use the VSS Command Line Interface
Use the ITS Private Cloud RESTful API
Send an email to vss(at)eis.utoronto.cahttps://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1356922991/Manage+virtual+machine+snapshots#%5BinlineExtension%5D%5BinlineExtension%5DDelete
Consolidate Disks
To consolidate VM disks, please use one of the following options:
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Understanding virtual machine snapshots in vSphere (VMware KB Article 1015180)
Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment (VMware KB Article 1025279)How to consolidate disk snapshots (VMware KB article 2003638)
vSphere client: right click on the VM name, go to "Snapshots", choose "Consolidate".
vSphere Web client: click "Actions" tab, go to "All vCenter Actions", go to "Snapshots", choose "Consolidate".
Snapshot Old Notification
The ITS Private Cloud will notify periodically when a snapshot is not compliant with the 72 hour lifetime period.
The Notifications will:
be ongoing until the deletion and will include the VM admin, informational contacts and the user who created the snapshot.
have the subject is
Snapshot Old Detectedare sent on a daily basis until deleted