script to check and delete snapshots

[deensolea]

hi all, i am trying to use a powercli script to check and delete snapshots from a file. Needed help with error handling; specifically to display if the vm is not reachable when reading from the text file and further if there is no snapshot present, then to display that. Any help would be great.

$VM = Get-VM -Name (get-content servers.txt)
$VM | Get-Snapshot | Remove-Snapshot -RunAsync -Confirm:$false

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try something like this

 Get-Content servers.txt -PipelineVariable vmName |
 ForEach-Object -Process {
    try{
        Get-VM -Name $vmName -ErrorAction Stop
        $snap = Get-VM -Name $vmName | Get-Snapshot
        if ($snap) {
            $snap | Remove-Snapshot -RunAsync -Confirm:$false
        } else {
            Write-Host "No snapshot(s) for VM $vmName"
        }
    }
    catch{
        write-host "VM $vmName not found"
    }
 }

[deensolea]

@LucD  thank you, as always works perfectly.