PowerShell Snapshot Remover

Bas Vinken over at the Kadaster (the Dutch Land Registry Office) has written a PowerShell script with great potential. It first detects and then removes the snapshots from all your virtual machines. This script uses the PowerShell snap-in from the VI-Toolkit. Great work Bas.

Get-VIServer "VCSERVER" -User bas -Password vinken

$AllVirtualMachines = Get-VM

foreach ($VirtualMachine in $AllVirtualMachines)

{$AllSnapshots=Get-Snapshot -VM $VirtualMachine

foreach ($Snapshot in $AllSnapshots)

 {If ($Snapshot.ID -like "VirtualMachineSnapshot-*")

  {Write-Host $VirtualMachine.Name, $Snapshot.Name, $Snapshot.Description

   Remove-Snapshot -snapshot $Snapshot –Confirm Write-Host  } } }