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Depends on what language you want to use. You could do it from the Service Console using bash or perl, you can do it remotely from the remote CLI or a windows machine using the VI Toolkit for windows.
VI Toolkit for Windows powershell script to snapshot VM: connect-viserver -server <server> -user <user> -password <pwd> New-Snapshot -Name <snapshot_name> -VM <vm_name> connect-viserver -server <server> -user <user> -password <pwd> remove-Snapshot -snapshot <snapshot_name> Perl Script: Here is a thread where someone wrote a perl script to do backups http://communities Service Console using vimsh create vmware-cmd <vmx> createsnapshot <snapshotName> revert vmware-cmd <vmx> revertsnapshot Sid Smith VCP, VTSP, CCNA, CCA(Xen Server), MCTS Hyper-V & SCVMM08 http://www.dailyhypervisor.com
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Take a look at my VCB "Proven Practice" Guide on VI:OPS -> http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1392 Dave Convery VMware vExpert 2009 http://www.dailyhypervisor.com  Careful. We don't want to learn from this. Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes" |
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You can also use the following: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760
========================================================================= William Lam VMware vExpert 2009 VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/ http://twitter.com/lamw 
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