Citrix Systems 6 manual Creating a snapshot with memory, To list the snapshots on a particular VM

xe vm-snapshot vm=<vm uuid> new-name-label=<vm_snapshot_name>

xe vm-snapshot-with-quiesce vm=<vm uuid> new-name-label=<vm_snapshot_name>

Creating a snapshot with memory

Run the vm-checkpointcommand, giving a descriptive name for the snapshot with memory, so that you can identify it later:

xe vm-checkpoint vm=<vm uuid> new-name-label=<name of the checkpoint>

When XenServer has completed creating the snapshot with memory - its uuid will be displayed.

For example:

xe vm-checkpoint vm=2d1d9a08-e479-2f0a-69e7-24a0e062dd35 \ new-name-label=example_checkpoint_1

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A snapshot with memory requires at least 4MB of disk space per disk, plus the size of the RAM, plus around 20% overhead. So a checkpoint with 256MB RAM would require approximately 300MB of storage.

Note:

During the checkpoint creation process, the VM is paused for a brief period of time, and cannot be used during this period.

To list all of the snapshots on a XenServer pool

Run the snapshot-listcommand:

xe snapshot-list

This lists all of the snapshots in the XenServer pool.

To list the snapshots on a particular VM

You will need to know the uuid of the particular VM; to do this run the vm-listcommand.

xe vm-list

This displays a list of all VMs and their UUIDs. For example:

xe vm-list

uuid ( RO): 116dd310-a0ef-a830-37c8-df41521ff72d

name-label ( RW): Windows Server 2003 (1)

power-state ( RO): halted

uuid ( RO): 96fde888-2a18-c042-491a-014e22b07839

name-label ( RW): Windows XP SP3 (1)

power-state ( RO): running

uuid ( RO): dff45c56-426a-4450-a094-d3bba0a2ba3f

name-label ( RW): Control domain on host

power-state ( RO): running

VMs can also be specified by filtering the full list of VMs on the values of fields.

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