How-to Revert to Virtual Machine Snapshot

Owned by JM Lopez
Nov 13, 2024
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For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.

ITS Private Cloud Portal

How-to Revert to a Virtual Machine Snapshot.mp4

 

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

Introduction

  1. Access your account by clicking on your username

  1. Enter "VSS username password" in the provided field

  1. Provide the VSS TOTP code for verification

  1. Verify your action by clicking the "VERIFY" button

  1. Proceed by clicking on the indicated option

  1. Select the "Snapshot" option from the menu

  1. Choose the "Edit" option from the menu

  1. Revert to the selected snapshot by clicking "Revert

  1. Continue expanding the menu as shown below

  1. Access the "History" section to follow up the Snapshot Request..

  1. Select the "Snapshot" tab

  1. Hover on the status icon to follow up the progress.

This guide covered accessing the account, providing verification codes, selecting and reverting snapshots, and navigating through different sections in the Utoronto application for efficient employee training

 

Command-Line Interface (vss-cli)

The following steps should guide you through the process of requesting a virtual machine snapshot using either via https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local ITS Private Cloud Command Line Interface vss-cli

  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 re command to submit a virtual machine snapshot revert request as follows:

    vss-cli --wait compute vm set <name-or-vm_id> snapshot re <snapshot-id>

  3. Once the request is submitted, you can follow up the request status with the vss-cli request snapshot command:

    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 and when the task has completed

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