Single command to save a SnapShot of all VMs in a sandbox

Hi,

We currently do not have plans to support a new command that takes a snapshot of all VMs in the sandbox.

I think this is a good candidate for customizing the system. I would add a new blueprint command, that iterates on the existing VMs and takes a snapshot of all VMs, or just some of them according to some custom logic

Regards

Ariel

Hi @TerenceWee

As Ariel mentioned, it's something that is do-able today using orchestration scripts.

You can take a look at the field implementation of the orchestration scripts (https://github.com/QualiSystemsLab/cloudshell-orch-sandbox). It includes setup/teardown and a "save snapshot" that will save both resource configurations and VMs snapshots, together with a current blueprint state. When you'll reserve that blueprint again the setup will restore the snapshots.

Yaniv

Hi @Yaniv.K,

I've looked through the link you've provided. The orchestration scripts does a few additional things apart from saving VM snapshots, like saving configuration details into an FTP server, etc. I will certainly look to implement this version of orchestration scripts in my next implementation of CloudShell.

However, I am looking to have a single command to simply enumerate through the resources in a reservation and call the native orchestration_save method to save a snapshot of the resource into the VMware linked clone. For now, it doesn't matter if the snapshot is removed together with the linked clone when the reservation is terminated.

cc: @Michael.N

Terence

Hi,

Adding save and restore capabilities to the sandbox is in our plans, and therefore I'm updating the status of this request to "considering". The exact details of the solution and how it will answer this specific request to create a snapshot to all the VMs in the sandbox is still in design.

Anyway, it will be great if you can elaborate on your use case and your expected flow. Do you have the VMs deployed in the sandbox? Do you expect that clicking this "snapshot" button will create a snapshot on the VMs themselves or create some copies of the VM? Will you revert to the snapshot during the sandbox or at a later time?

Thanks,

Alona.