How can I make and delete a snapshot of the command line in ESXi 4?
How can I make and delete a snapshot of the command line in ESXi 4? ghettoVCB4i does, but I need unusual behaviour for two virtual machines. I need to be able to save only one of the two virtual drives, not both. So I can't use this script here. I need to write a script that will:
1 copy off the .vmx
2 make a snapshot of a virtual computer running
3 use the vmkfstools command to clone the vmdk in the backup location
4 remove the snapshot.
The snapshot is the part that I do not know how. I do not see a flash drive in vmkfstools and I do not understand the snapshot code in ghettoVCB4i.
Thank you!
vmkfstools is a tool for working with VMDK, has nothing to do with stereotypes. In the Busybox unsupported console, the only tool that you can use for some of the management of the virtual computer is vim-cmd , which is about a wrapper for VMware vimsh, take a look at our site for more information: http://engr.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_vimsh
Basically, you're going to do something like the following:
vim-cmd "vmsvc/snapshot.create XXXX FIRST_SNAPSHOT MY_FIRST_SNAPSHOT_1"
where XXXX is VmId to the virtual machine that is retrieved from vmsvc/getallvms, then you are going to deliver the snapshot.remove
Here are some other useful commands dealing with snapshots:
Vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall \[VmId]
[[[vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.remove \[VmId\] \[removeChildren\] \[snapshotLevel\] \[snapshotIndex\]
Vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get \[VmId\]
ghettoVCB4i uses vimsh to do these things as well.
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