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Thursday 16 February 2017

Taking multiple VMs snapshot – VMware vSphere PowerCLI

Or, How to create multiple VMs snapshot?
Or, How to take snapshot of multiple VMs at once?
Or, Command for taking multiple VMs snapshot.
Or, Taking snapshot of multiple VMs at once.

Descriptions: When you think of snapshot of virtual machines, its easy if you are doing it for one or two machines but its easiest when you thinking to do it for multiple VMs, may be 10-20 or more VMs. Yeah, correct, its was not a typo. J Its even easiest to take snapshot of multiple virtual machines.

The only thing you need is, VMware vSphere PowerCLI.

There are two methods that I use frequently for taking snapshot of multiple virtual machines:

1. Setting up $VMs parameter pointing to the list of virtual machines and then using New-Snapshot cmdlet
2. Typing VMs name manually and then using New-Snapshot cmdlet

Let’s see how?

Steps (Method-1): Setting up $VMs parameter pointing to the list of virtual machines and then using New-Snapshot cmdlet

Open vSphere PowerCLI > Connect to your vCenter server > Type the command given below and hit enter:

$VMs = Get-VM VM1, VM2, VM3, VM4


Note: replace VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4 with your Virtual Machines name. You can add more VMs name here after coma (,).



Now, run the below command and hit enter to start the snapshot process:

New-Snapshot -VM $VMs -Name NameOfSnsphot -Description DescriptionOfSnapshot






That’s it, all VMs (VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4), now would be having a snapshot.

Steps (Method-2): Typing VMs name manually and then using New-Snapshot cmdlet

Open vSphere PowerCLI > Connect to your vCenter server > Type the command given below and hit enter:

New-Snapshot -VM VM1, VM2, VM3, VM4 -Name NameOfSnsphot -Description DescriptionOfSnapshot

Note: replace VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4 with your Virtual Machines name. You can add more VMs name here after coma (,).







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