On 20/02/2010 8:11 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>
>> you can also stop/start the system. I am not sure if you can trigger a
>> snapshot, but that may be a good solution if you can't take the
>> virtual system down.
>>      
> You can, but not in the free tools.  That's the carrot for the pay stuff.
>
>    

Assuming your are using Vmware Server 2 you can trigger a VM snapshot 
using vmware-vim-cmd.

vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create 112
vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get 112
vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall 112

Ben

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