Hi,

At work we use an ESXi 4.1 with some test environments VM.

Every morning this (3 VM) is reverted back to the last taken snapshot. This snapshot is under maintenance once a month to install updates or changes we see fit.

What i would like is for this operation to be automatic.

Is there a way / script / operations to make the last snapshot taken on given VM, reverted to during given hour of the day ?

Looking forward to feedbacks

Regards

You can use the command vim-cmd vmsvc/ - it has the following snapshot options:

snapshot.create
snapshot.dumpoption
snapshot.get
snapshot.remove
snapshot.removeall
snapshot.revert
snapshot.setoption

If you run vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create you'll see the options to use.

~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create
Insufficient arguments.
Usage: snapshot.create vmid [snapshotName] [snapshotDescription] [includeMemory] [quiesced]

Creates a snapshot for the vm.

You can use cron to schedule a script that you create - http://www.jules.fm/Logbook/files/add_c ... mware.html