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Automating Virtual Machine screenshots in vSphere

01.18.2023 by William Lam // 3 Comments

I was recently reminded of an old article that I wrote back in 2013 demonstrating how to capture Virtual Machine screenshots using a couple of options that are available within vSphere. While the blog post is more than 10 years old, the guidance and options are still applicable for all recent vSphere releases.

I highly recommend folks give the original article a read, especially for the full background but I did want to provide some updated information for those interested in automating the capture of VM screenshots using both the vSphere API as well as the HTTP Handler methods.

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Categories // Automation, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // screenshot, vSphere

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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