Snapshot vApp?

[dvnguyen]

Are there snapshot capabilities for vApps in vCloud Director?  What if I wanted to test something with a group of VMs or a single VM in a vApp, revert it back, and I had no access to the vSphere Client?  Is there a similar feature as that of snapshots in vSphere?

[charliejllewell · Accepted solution]

Sadly not. Hopefully this will be available in a future release. The only option, and its not great, I can think of is to do a hot clone via using the API. There is a guide on doing this orchestrator which should point you in right direction but its not really a snapshot more of a backup http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/vcloud-director-vapp-hot-clone.html.

[dvnguyen]

Hmm..unforuntate indeed.  Do you know what might happen if we snapshotted a VM in vSphere, do something, and revert it back?

I'm thinking of writing up a little tool that integrates vCD and vSphere API to perform the snapshot.  Not sure what the effects may be though.

[JayhawkEric]

For our client conference we deployed vApps in VCD and then did snapshots of them once fully up via vCenter.  We reverted them via vCenter multiple times a day with no issues.  VCD never complained either.

Eric

[dvnguyen]

Ok, that brings me a peace of mind.  Thank you.