Delete a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot - Ansible module vmware_guest_snapshot
By Luca Berton · Published 2024-01-01 · Category: troubleshooting
How to automate the delete of snapshot named “Ansible Managed Snapshot” in a VMware Virtual Machine “myvm” Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_snapshot module.
How to Delete a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot.
Ansible Delete a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot • community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot • Manages virtual machines snapshots in vCenter
Let's talk about the Ansible module vmware_guest_snapshot. The full name is community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported. It manages virtual machine snapshots in vCenter.
Parameters • hostname string / username string / password string / datacenter string / validate_certs boolean - connection details • state string - present / absent / revert / remove_all • remove_children boolean - no/yes • snapshot_name string description string - Name/description of the virtual machine to work with
The following parameters are useful in order to Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot using the module vmware_guest_snapshot. First of all, we need to establish the connection with VMware vSphere or VMware vCenter using a plethora of self-explicative parameters: hostname, username, password, datacenter, and validate_certs. Once the connection is successfully established you could specify the desired snapshot state, in this case, "absent" to delete a snapshot. You could also manage a snapshot with the same Ansible module. If you want to remove a snapshot you could also remove all the dependent snapshots using the parameter remove_children. You need to specify the exact snapshot name that you would like to remove in the snapshot_name parameter.
Links • community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot
## Playbook
How to Delete a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to Delete a snapshot of the Virtual Machine named "myvm" using Ansible Playbook named "Ansible Managed Snapshot" in your VMware vCenter.
code • vm_snapshot_remove.yml • vars.yml • inventory
execution
idempotency
before execution
!vmware_guest_snapshot before execution
after execution
!vmware_guest_snapshot after execution
Conclusion Now you know how to create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible.
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