PowerCLI Cookbook

Chapter 5. Creating and Managing Snapshots

In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:

• Creating a snapshot
• Getting a list of snapshots in the environment
• Manipulating the list of snapshots to get better information
• Scoping and filtering a list of snapshots
• Removing targeted snapshots
• Finding lost or unknown snapshots
• Creating a function to automatically remediate snapshots
• Scheduling automatic snapshot remediation
• Creating a snapshot management module

Introduction

Snapshots are one of the best features in vSphere. Snapshots are the safety net built into the platform that allows you to easily revert to a previous known good state in the event that something happens in a VM. Some environments run regularly scheduled snapshots. Some administrators ...