The Delete Unused Snapshots for Virtual Machine action comprises two dialog boxes. The first dialog box allows you to select the snapshot age criteria, which must be greater than one day. The second step allows you to select the snapshots to delete, and runs the Delete Unused Snapshots for Virtual Machine action.

The number of days that you specify for each virtual machine is the age of the snapshots based on the creation date. The Delete Unused Snapshots for Virtual Machine action retrieves the snapshot and displays the snapshot name, space consumed, and location so that you can evaluate the snapshots before you delete them.

When you click

Begin Action

,

VMware Aria Operations

displays a dialog box to indicate that the action has started. To track the status of the action, click the link in the dialog box and view the state of the action in

Administration

Recent Tasks

.

For the supported objects and object levels, this action is available in the following locations in

VMware Aria Operations

:

Embedded just below the top menu.
From the left menu click
Environment
Object Browser
, select an object, click the
Details
tab, and click
Views
.
On the toolbar when you click
Environment
Object Browser
, select an object, click the
Environment
tab, and select an object in the list view.
In the Inventory list when you click
Administration
in the menu, click
Inventory
, then click the
List
tab, and select an object in the list.
In configured alert recommendations.
In the Object List and Topology Graph dashboard widgets.

To ensure that you are submitting the action for the right objects, review the following information.

You first retrieve snapshots based on age, then select the snapshots to delete.

Select the snapshots to delete.

Delete Snapshots

Option	Description
Selected objects	Check box indicates whether the action is applied to the object. To not run the action on one or more objects, deselect the associated check boxes. This option is available when two or more objects are selected.
VM Name	Name of the virtual machine from which the snapshot was created.
Snapshot Name	Name of the snapshot in the datastore.
Snapshot Space (MB)	Number of megabytes consumed by the snapshot.
Snapshot Create Time	Date and time when the snapshot was created.
Snapshot Age	Age of the snapshot in days.
Datacenter Name	Name of the data center with which the datastore is associated.
Datastore Name	Name of the datastore where the snapshot is managed.
Host Name	Name of the host with which the datastore is associated.

After you click

OK

, the next dialog box provides the task ID and a link to the task list.

The Delete Unused Snapshots action creates a job for the retrieve snapshots action, and a job for the delete snapshots action.