How-to Create Virtual Machine Snapshot

For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.

ITS Private Cloud Portal

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.

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.