h1. Xen Tools

Various Xen tools I've written.

h2. Current Tools

• "xen-vm-autosnapshot.py":/mconigliaro/Xen-Tools/raw/master/xen-vm-autosnapshot.py - Command-line utility for taking automatic, rotating VM snapshots. (Note: There is a known issue related to the way NetApp snapshots are deleted (or rather, not deleted) in the current version of the XenAPI. See "Deleting NetApp snapshots":http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=242299 for more information.)

h2. Prerequisites

• "Python 2.6":http://python.org/
• XenAPI.py from the "XenServer SDK":http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/XenServer+SDK

h2. Documentation

See the --help command line option.

h2. Example Usage

h3. Take a snapshot, then delete all but the latest 3 snapshots:

xen-vm-autosnapshot.py --server=xenserver01 --username=root --password=12345 
--vms="*some_regular_expression*" --snapshot-max=3 snapshot snapshot-rotate