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PowerCLI: handling snapshots
posted on September 9th 2019, at 12:45
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lunarg
Handling snapshots (creating, deleting, restoring) is rather intuitive when you already have some experience with PowerCLI. As a reference, here are some one-liners. As always with Powershell, there's more than one way to achieve a goal... The examples used here assume a VM named "SRV01". Adjust as needed.
Create a snapshot:
Get-VM SRV01 | New-Snapshot -Name "My snapshot"
Remove all snapshots (disabling confirmation request in the process):
Get-VM SRV01 | Get-Snapshot | Remove-Snapshot -Confirm:$false
To handle a specific snapshot, you could do something like this:
$vm = Get-VM SRV01$snap = Get-Snapshot -VM $vm -Name "My snapshot"# do something with the sn
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