Re: Cancel snapshot deletion

tamomo · ‎08-04-2023

Hi. I have a plan to perform a snapshot deletion. (ESXi 7)

I am looking at the following KB I know that I cannot cancel the deletion of a snapshot in the middle.
I know that I can't cancel the snapshot deletion in the middle because it will destroy the data.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1023657

I am assuming that if the disk is large, the deletion will take longer.
I asked because the building might lose power in the middle of deleting snapshots.
If the building loses power, it will shut down the ESXi host.

Is there any way to cancel deleting a snapshot in the middle if the deletion takes a long time and does not finish ?

I understand that data can be corrupted.

Gizzie · ‎08-04-2023

Not sure if I understand this completely... Is the snapshot deletion already in progress?

If not, and you are concerned that the snapshot deletion will be taking too long, consider stopping the VM and performing a snapshot consolidation instead. Consolidation might be faster than deletion and can help clean up the snapshots.

If you still want to do snapshot deletion while power loss is presumably, then I suggest to create a snapshot of the VM before you start deleting snapshots. This will give you a restore point if the deletion is interrupted due to power outage.

tamomo · ‎08-08-2023

hi Gizzie

Thank you for your reply.

I haven't deleted it yet. "I plan to delete the snapshot."

I plan to consolidate the snapshots with "remove all".

Since the target VM has a large disk capacity, I thought it would take a long time to delete even if it was merged with "remove all".

So when I run "remove all" and a power outage occurs, I have to stop the host before the power outage.

I don't care if the VM's data is corrupted, I asked if there was a way to cancel the "remove all" before stopping the host.