Delete a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot - Ansible module vmware_guest_snapshot — Video Tutorial

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](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_snapshot_module.html) ## 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 ```yaml --- - name: vm snapshot Playbook hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false collections: - community.vmware pre_tasks: - include_vars: vars.yml tasks: - name: remove snapshot vmware_guest_snapshot: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" name: "{{ vm_name }}" folder: "{{ vm_folder }}" snapshot_name: "Ansible Managed Snapshot" state: absent ``` - vars.yml ```yaml --- vcenter_hostname: "vmware.example.com" vcenter_datacenter: "vmwaredatacenter" vcenter_validate_certs: false vcenter_username: "username@vsphere.local" vcenter_password: "MySecretPassword123" vm_name: "myvm" vm_template: "mytemplat