Creating and Managing Product
Snapshots
You can use the snapshot inventory
controller APIs to trigger a snapshot of any product that you deployed using
VMware Aria
Suite Lifecycle
. When you take a snapshot,
you capture the product state at a particular date and time.If you use
VMware Aria
Suite Lifecycle
to trigger the product snapshot, you can use
VMware Aria
Suite Lifecycle
to manage the
snapshot.You only use the snapshot inventory controller
APIs to take snapshots of products and not of
VMware Aria
Suite Lifecycle
itself.For a list of best practices when using VMware
snapshots in the vSphere environment, see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1025279.
Tenant ID for VMware Aria
Automation Config snapshots
VMware Aria
Automation Config
snapshotsTo create or manage a snapshot of
VMware Aria
Automation Config
, you need the tenant ID for the cloud
account in VMware Aria
Automation
. Perform the
following steps to obtain the tenant ID and assign the tenant ID variable.- List all environment IDs.curl -X GET \ '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/environments' \ -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ | jq "."
- Examine the response to locate the tenant ID for the cloud account inVMware Aria Automationunder the product properties as in the following example.... { "environmentRequestDTO": { "environmentId": "b24ab534-77db-49fd-aa96-4efd2b19632c", "environmentName": "vRealize Automation Environment Example", ... "products": [ { "id": "vra", "version": "8.6.0", "patchHistory": null, "snapshotHistory": null, "logHistory": null, "clusterVIP": { "clusterVips": [] }, "nodes": [], "collectorGroups": null, "properties": { "deployOption": "standard", "tenantId": "Standalone vRASSC", "fipsMode": "false", "isCaEnabled": "false", "licenseRef": "l" } } ], ...
- Assign the tenantId variable.tenantId = '<your_tenant_ID>'