How to Take a Snapshot of a VMware vSphere VM using PowerShell and PowerCLI

Guillermo Musumeci
2 min readOct 18, 2020

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In this story, we will learn how to create (and remove) a snapshot of a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine (VM) using PowerShell and PowerCLI.

This script is useful to create a snapshot before we are going to make a change in a VM and remove it after we complete the change.

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Guillermo Musumeci

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