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goce74
Contributor
Contributor
‎12-09-2019 08:33 PM

powercli snapshot powershell how can i get the information that is shown on the portal

We are on VCloud Director. I use powercli to connect to the VCloud. I have the following Powershell modules

  • List item 11.0.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud
  • List item 11.3.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Common
  • List item 11.3.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Core11.3.0
  • List item 11.2.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Vds

I can shut down the VM and take a snapshot from poweshell

Connect-CIServer -Server $vcd02 -org $orgArp 
$VM = Get-CIVM -Name $server 

$vm.ExtensionData.Shutdown_Task() 

$vm.ExtensionData.CreateSnapshot($false,$true,"Snapshot","BeforeVMtoolinstall")

Then in VCloud portal I can see that there is a snapshot. But how can I run a powershell command to show me that the snapshot has been taken of the VM/VApp ?

The command get-snapshot does not work.

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Macleud
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‎04-24-2021 05:29 AM

Hi.

$vm.ExtensionData.GetSnapshotSection().snapshot

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