How to suspend a virtual machine?

I'm writing a use my plugin to create a consistent snapshot of a Lun.

Assuming that there are a few VMS on the same logical unit number, I need to somehow suspend all VM and then create the snapshot on the storage device.  (I ALREADY KNOW how to create the snapshot on the storage device...)

Is there a way to suspend a virtual machine without using VM.snapshot?

Thank you!

Not as far as I know, VMware Tools will assign the operation to "suspend" is really the OS according to the pilots, he may have installed and is generally before the operation of VMware snapshot. An example is Windows + VSS, you can look in the VSS API and see if you can use that or whatever OS you are trying to accomplish this with. VMware uses just what is available on the guestOS, this isn't in the vSphere API to really control it.

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