How to remove all snapshots on ESX host ?

[alex777]

Hello.

Prompt please how from cli(ssh) to remove all snapsots on all VMs (ESX 3x) ?

[wgardiner]

Here you go

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/295-PowerShell-Snapshot-Remover.html

[alex777]

Thanks for your answer.

But PoweShell does not approach. Only local ESX console (this script run by cron).

[kjb007 · Accepted solution]

You can run a vmware-cmd against the vm's and remove them using a loop.

cd /vmfs/volumes/<datastore_name>

for $vm in `ls -1`

do

vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastore_name>/$vm/$vm.vmx removesnapshots

done

Message was edited by: kjb007 : fixed code

[alex777]

Thanks !