For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.
Web UI
- Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
- Look for the VM to edit and click
- Click on the Snapshot button:
- Select the date and time the snapshot will taken at:
- Select the lifetime for the snapshot (72 hours max):
- Click OK and you should see a snapshot request number at the bottom of the screen:
- You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
VSS CLI
The following steps should guide you through the process of requesting a virtual machine snapshot using the VSS CLI either local install or https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca
- Run vss configure to configure your VSS credentials. If you have already done this, please go to next step.
Look for the virtual machine UUID (identifier) to submit the snapshot request:
vss 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
Use the vss compute vm set <uuid> snapshot command to submit a snapshot request as follows:
vss compute vm set 50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb snapshot --action mk \ --description "Before difficult upgrade" --timestamp "2018-02-19 09:00" --lifetime 72
Once the request is submitted, you can follow up the request status with the vss request snapshot command:
vss 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
- You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
- 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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