Time Controlled Snapshot

[SirHaschke]

Hello,
is it possible to plan a snapshot of a VM automatically via taskplaner etc.?

Thanks
Dennis

[Seniore · Accepted solution]

Hi Dennis,

you could use the Windows task scheduler to run a PowerCLI script.

New-Snapshot -VM $VM -Name $Snapshotname -description "$Snapshotdescription"

The other option is to vCenters "Scheduled Tasks" to create it.

[brunofernandez1]

just quick and dirty no error handling and nothing....

$Snapin = "VMware.VimAutomation.Core"
$vCenterServer = "hostnameofvcenteroresxi"
$User = "root"
$Password = "password"
$VM = "vmtest"
$SnapshotName = "foo"
$SnapshotDesc = "foo bar"


function LoadSnapin {
    param (
        $Snapin)

    process {
        If ((Get-PSSnapin $Snapin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)
            {
            Write-Host Loading Snapin $Snapin 
            Add-PSSnapin $Snapin -WarningAction SilentlyContinue
            }
        }
    }


 function ConnectVI {
    param (
        $vCenterServer)
            Write-Host 'Connecting to vCenter' $vCenterServer
            Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer -User $User -Password $Password -WarningAction SilentlyContinue
    }


function DisconnectVI {
    param (
        $vCenterServer)
            Write-Host 'Disconnecting from vCenter' $vCenterServer
            Disconnect-VIServer $vCenterServer -Confirm:$false -WarningAction SilentlyContinue
    } 




LoadSnapin $Snapin


ConnectVI $vCenterServer


New-Snapshot -VM $VM -Name $SnapshotName -Description $SnapshotDesc -Confirm:$false




DisconnectVI $vCenterServer


exit 0

[SirHaschke]

Great,

this is fine:

VMware vSphere 5.1

Thanks

Dennis