Keep the session with Esx/Vcenter throughout the backup

Hello

When I trigger a backup of drive on a virtual machine, I have the following algorithm.

1. log in to the host.

2 take a snapshot of the virtual machine.

3. for each disk in the virtual machine, the request for the block changed.

4. take the backup of the disk.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the entire disc.

6. store the virtual machine configuration.

7 remove the snapshot.

8 disconnection.

When I tested my code with a very large drive which took place for a 8hrs say for a diskbackup complete, when I get to step 6, the session appears to have expired. With the exception of the removal of the snapshot, I think I can work around the problem - since the snapshot is an object of the session, just confused how this can be managed. Is there a way to keep the session until I finish the backup - as it seems more natural to keep the session so that all operations are completed instead of trying to work around. Let me know your opinion.

Thank you

. / Siva.

Hello Shiva!

I couldn't find a way to get the object of snapshot based on the name. One of the recommended steps to do before taking a snapshot is to delete all the snapshots with the name that you use to take the snapshot - which are essentially snapshots of the backup failed. The virtual computer object provides a way that to remove all snapshots - which of course is false, but does not rely on the name of the snapshot. Any ideas on that?

Sorry to be not been clear enough, I'll try one another: how to find a snapshot by name?

I agree with you that it is not obvious at first glance. In my opinion the VirtualMachine managed object provides a property named 'snapshot '. This property is an instance of data object VirtualMachineSnapshotInfo. There is a property named "rootSnapshotList". This property is an array of data objects VirtualMachineSnapshotTree . And now comes the crucial point to the routine:

To me, it seems that the hierarchy entire snapshot is represented by instances of VirtualMachineSnapshotTree of objects where each of them finally points to the successful VirtualMachineSnapshot Explorer they represent in fact. The tree object provides data in read-only snapshot represented, i.e. name, description, etc.

In short:

  1. Download the roots of instant trees via VM.snapshot.rootSnapshotList
  2. Recursively browse through [VirtualMachineSnapshotTree.childSnapshotList]
  3. Identify your snapshot via VirtualMachineSnapshotTree.name
  4. Access to the managed VirtualMachineSnapshot object via VirtualMachineSnapshotTree.snapshot
  5. Remove the snapshot via the method RemoveSnapshot_Task

I guess that should work :-)

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