How-to Revert to Virtual Machine Snapshot

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

ITS Private Cloud Portal

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

Access your account by clicking on your username

Enter "VSS username password" in the provided field

Provide the VSS TOTP code for verification

Verify your action by clicking the "VERIFY" button

Proceed by clicking on the indicated option

Select the "Snapshot" option from the menu

Choose the "Edit" option from the menu

Revert to the selected snapshot by clicking "Revert

Continue expanding the menu as shown below

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

Select the "Snapshot" tab

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

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 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>
```

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 and when the task has completed

How-to Revert to Virtual Machine Snapshot

ITS Private Cloud Portal

Command-Line Interface (vss-cli)

Command-Line Interface (`vss-cli`)