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The ITS Private Cloud offers two options as archival methods:

  • Mark your Virtual Machine as Template

    • PROS: To power it on, you must mark the template as first.

    • CONS : The VM will be billed for storage only (this might fit in the pros).

  • Export the Virtual Machine as OVF to your VSS User space:

    • PROS : Storage free of charge. Can be downloaded and stored on your end.

    • CONS: If you need to run it, you will have to deploy a new from OVF.

Export the VM as OVF

Instructions using the vss-cli

Using https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

  1. Look for the vm moref to delete with the following command:

    vss-cli compute vm ls

  2. Submit the export request with the command:

    vss-cli compute vm set <id-or-name> export

  3. The task submitted will do two subtasks:

    1. Run the export from vSphere to OVF and downloading all VMDK files.

    2. Transfer the files to your VSS User Storage.

    3. Once complete, a notification will follow.

Mark the VM as Template

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions using the Portal

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

  2. Look for the VM to Edit and click the ✏  button.

  3. From the VM Tab, click on the Template toggle located at the top right corner.

  4. Click on YES to confirm the conversion.

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions using the vss-cli

Using https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

  1. Look for the vm moref to delete with the following command:

    vss-cli compute vm ls

  2. Submit the export request with the command:

    vss-cli compute vm set <id-or-name> template --on

  3. Once converted to template, the Virtual Machine will not be able to run, unless marked as VM.

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