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If you’ve enabled SSH, there are a series of useful commands you can run against the VMs on the host

I’ll keep this post updated with those I’ve found most useful

Gets a list of the VM ids for use in subsequent commands

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

Get the snapshot info for a given VM ID (which you can obtain with the previous command)

vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get &lt;VM ID&gt;

Remove all snapshots for a given VM ID.

vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall &lt;VM ID&gt;

Create a snapshot for a given VM ID and information provided

vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create [VmId] [snapshotName] 

[snapshotDescription] [includeMemory] [quiesced]

Edit cron file

vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

Kill and Restart Cron

kill $(cat /var/run/crond.pid)

crond

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