In this article, we will see how to create, commit, revert-to virtual machine snapshots from ESXi command line. We will also talk about the very useful "linked clones" that are related to the snapshot feature.

Prerequisites

You only need to have a running VM on the ESXi and to know its Vmid:

1    $ vim-cmd …

Now that we've seen how to create a nested-ESXi on virtualbox, we may need to have some content in order to test commands of procedures.

Local datastore

Disk creation

To create a local datastore, you'll have to add a new virtual disk to your nested ESXi:

First step is to create a SATA disk controller: