You can use mine below. I use this all the time and it runs as a sheduled task each night on a windows box. It connects to several Vcenters and nukes any snapshot older than 7 days, via our policy. I have cleaned up all the references to our organization. It also maps a drive and logs the removals. Add to the $vcenters. I have set up new vicredentials for all the vcenters on the machine that is running this script so login is taken care of. Change the $age variable to 2 for your 48 hrs. With such a short time frame, it all depends on how many times you plan to execute this script i suppose.
$drive = New-Object -com wscript.network
$drive.MapNetworkDrive("Z:", "\\share\folder")
$LogFilePath = "z:\rm-old-snapshots.log"
$Exclusions = ('VMnames to exclude')
$vcenters = @("vc01",
"vc02")
#connect all vcenters:
Foreach ($vcenter in $vcenters) {
Connect-VIServer -Server $vcenter -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -WarningAction SilentlyContinue
# Set the variables used
$vms = get-view -viewtype VirtualMachine -Filter @{"snapshot" = ""}
# Select only up to 10 Snaps per cycle, this is to prevent a delete snapshot storm.
$vms = $vms | ? name -notin $Exclusions | sort @{e={$_.snapshot.rootsnapshotlist.createtime} } | select -first 10
$age = 7
$date = (Get-Date).ToString()
foreach ($vm in $vms) {
try {
$snap = get-snapshot -vm $vm.name -ErrorAction Stop
if ($snap.count -gt 1) { $snap = $snap | sort created | select -first 1}
if($snap.Created -lt (Get-Date).Adddays( -$age)){
Remove-Snapshot $snap -RemoveChildren -RunAsync -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction stop
write-output "$($date): $($vm.name) SNAP:$($snap.name) SIZE:$($snap.SizeGB -as [int])Gb CREATED:$($snap.Created)" |
Out-File -Append $LogFilePath
}
} Catch {
Write-output "FAILED: $($vm.name)" | out-file -Append $LogFilePath
} #try-catch
}
Disconnect-VIServer $vcenter -Confirm:$false
}
