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Sample: copy the contents of a snapshotted VMDK to a new temporary file

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#34 opened on May 28, 2014

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Description

Given a UUID to identify a Virtual Machine, find a snapshot and extract the VMDK information from it to create a brand new VMDK in a separate location.

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Explore pyVmomi documentation and sample code to understand how to list snapshots and access VMDK paths for a given VM UUID. Then create a script that copies the VMDK to a new temporary file using the extracted path.
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python
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cloud
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