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 Moref (identifier) to submit the snapshot request (Optional):

   vss-cli compute vm ls -f name=Front
   
   moref    name             folder.path                  cpu_count    memory_gb  power_state    ip_address
   -------  ---------------  -------------------------  -----------  -----------  -------------  ------------
   vm-2183  2004T-Frontend2  VSS > Development > Dev02            2            2  poweredOff
   vm-2185  2004T-Frontend3  VSS > Development > Dev03            1            1  poweredOn

3. 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

4. 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

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