Request Virtual Machine Snapshot
For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.
ITS Private Cloud Portal
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.
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
Run
vss-cli configure
to configure your VSS credentials. If you have already done this, please go to next step.Use the
vss-cli compute vm set <name-or-vm-id> snapshot
command to submit a snapshot request as follows:vss-cli compute vm set --wait {name-or-vm-id} snapshot --action mk \ --description "Before difficult upgrade" --timestamp "2020-04-27 16:53" \ --lifetime 72
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
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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