Request Virtual Machine Snapshot

1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
2. Look for the VM to edit and click 
3. Click on the Snapshot button:
   
4. Select the date and time the snapshot will taken at:
   
5. Select the lifetime for the snapshot (72 hours max):
   
6. Click OK and you should see a snapshot request number at the bottom of the screen:
   
7. 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 the either via https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

1. Run vss configure to configure your VSS credentials. If you have already done this, please go to next step.

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
6. For more information about how to Revert or Delete a Snapshot using the CLI, please refer to the CLI documentation here.

1. Send an email to vss(at)eis.utoronto.ca requesting create a virtual machine snapshot.
2. Wait for email confirmation