VmWare Server Create/Revert to Snapshot actions

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Hi,

Are there any plans of including the “Create/Revert to” snapshot actions for VMWare server?
For some reason there are such actions for the VMWare Workstation, but nor for the server.

Best Regards, Lev A. Kurts

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Hi Lev,

Unfortunately the VMWare Server COM API doesn’t yet support creating and reverting snapshots. As soon as VMWare add this into the API, we’ll add FinalBuilder actions to support this functionality.

[if you have a look on the VMWare forums there’s a lot of people asking the same question…]

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Got it, thanks for a prompt response!

Best Regards, Lev A. Kurts

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And now with the 2 year necro - didn't see any other mention of this one though...

I'm looking for exactly this type of action - reverting, specifically. After seeing this post I looked around the VMWare site and found that version 2.5 SDK (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/, that appears to be the current one, but I'm certainly not all that familiar with VMWare) appears to have information on reverting to snapshots in a VMWare Server environment. At the very least, there are 'RevertToSnapshot_Task' and 'RevertToCurrentSnapshot_Task' functions available (It DOES say the first one of those is not supported with ESX 2.x server, but we have 3.x server - not clear from the text if the server or the v2.x part is the important part there).

Anyway, I figured I would check before trying to decipher this API and script something myself if this was something that had been added to FB already - say in v6 (no mention of it on the features page though) - or if someone had already tried doing something similar.

Updated to add: My IT guru has informed me that we have 'vmware infrastructure 3.5 (clustered vmware esx 3.5 servers)' in case that makes a difference at all.


Thanks!

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Hi Justin

The VMWare support we have at the moment is for for VMWare Server 1 and VMWare Workstation 6. ESX is a different product which has it's own set of api's. Unfortunately we do not have ESX Server here (and we do not have the hardware to run it), so it's very difficult for us to develop actions to support ESX. The good news is you can use the api's yourself with FinalBuilder Action Studio to develop custom actions to achieve what you need. If you need any help with that please contact support at finalbuilder dot com.

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Thanks for the response. I guess I will see what I can put together on my own :->

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I realize it's been a little while. I figured i'd mention that in case anyone was curious, we ended up taking the particular VM in question off of the ESX and just set it up as it's own workstation. And then everything worked great through FB! So, if someone else is in the same situation, I'd recommend just doing that and saving yourself the headache ;)