[Spacewalk-list] vmware snapshots

[Yakin, Francis]

What we do is we just go to Vcenter and do it manually to take snap shot of the VM before we patch it.

But VMware(Vcenter) has command line to do multiple VMs with PowerCLI

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=PCLI650R1&productId=614

Francis


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert Paschedag
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 8:42 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com; Casey Gadd; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] vmware snapshots

Am 28. November 2018 17:07:47 MEZ schrieb Casey Gadd <CaseyG at okpud.org>:
>Francis, how are you doing it?
>
We are patching our servers with a script, that uses the spacewalk API, to schedule the errata installation on the clients.

You could just extend such a script to connect to your vcenter and snapshot the VM, before you actually run the errata installation.

Robert

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>From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
><spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Yakin, Francis
>Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 11:16 AM
>To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] vmware snapshots
>
>Yes, you can. That what I am using now instead of create a snapshot
>from spacewalk.
>
>Francis
>
>From:
>spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
>[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Casey Gadd
>Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 9:26 AM
>To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: [Spacewalk-list] vmware snapshots
>
>Is there any way to create snapshots before the patch process? We are
>using VMware.
>
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>Casey H Gadd, M.S.
>Information Systems Technician
>Office:      (509) 422-8495
>Cell:          (509) 560-0668
>
>Okanogan County Public Utility District No. 1
>1331 Second Ave. N.
>Okanogan, WA 98840


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