My goal is to write a script that will:

1) shut all guests down.
2) Take a snapshot of all guests in a cascaded fashion
3) Power the guests back on
4) Call (what you use to patch your servers)
5) Reboot all guests

I know that is a tall order (especially for a rookie like me) but I am positive it can be done.

Advice?

Once more than “x” snapshots are being removed wait until the process is completed before continuing.

i want to delete snapshot left by Vranger on my vmware enviroment, what type of wild card can i use to do this,
vranger names the snap shot “Created by vRanger …..”
and is there a way i can say not to delete snap shots older than a day?

I was looking for a way to automatically delete snapshots, that are older than one week (or another time, depends on the company policy). Is there some variable that specifys the time of the snapshot? I’d like to recommit all snapshots older than a week to prevent problems with full VMFS and timeout while recommitting big snapshots.

The script we use here could be useful in that case. Does anyone see a way here?

Thanks,
Stefan

Script:
connect-viserver virtualcenter-server.name
get-vm | get-snapshot -Name “_VCB-Backup_”|remove-snapshot -RunAsync -confirm:$false

Your script works well.
But if there is no _VCB-BACKUP_ snapshot, an error message is returned telling you that no snapshot were found.
How can you write your script to test if there is no snapshot do nothing, else delete the _VCB-BACKUP_ snapshot.

Thanks

Chris

Thanks,