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pcoyne
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‎01-20-2015 04:45 PM

Trigger snapshot creation and restoration from within guest OS?

Hi,

I have an ESXi 5.5.0 running a CentOS 6.5 guest. Is there a way for the guest to ask the ESXi hypervisor to take a snapshot of itself (the guest)? Similarly, is there a way for the guest to ask to be restored to a previous snapshot? Thanks.

Patrick

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JarryG
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‎01-20-2015 10:03 PM

Not sure if there is some "trigger", but you could always write small shell-script for this (ssh from vm to esxi and fire up snapshot/backup or whatever you want). You can find some inspiration in ghettovcb script (or simply let ghettovcb on esxi as it is, and call it up from remote ssh-session).

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SureshKumarMuth
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‎01-20-2015 10:45 PM

I don't think we have an option to do that from inside guest OS.

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pcoyne
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‎01-21-2015 09:50 AM

Thanks Jarry and Sureshkumar. I'm working on a virtual appliance that will be running on our customer's ESXi infrastructure, so I don't think SSH'ing into the hypervisor is an option, since we will not know each customer's login information (though I guess we could ask for it).

Sounds like there is no official support for this then. Any other ideas? Thanks.

Patrick

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