Delete a Product Snapshot

You can use the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle API to delete a product snapshot created using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

To keep vCenter disk space consumption at a reasonable level, delete snapshots that you no longer need. The following procedure shows how to delete a VMware Aria Operations snapshot.

Prerequisites

• Verify that all general prerequisites have been satisfied and that you have assigned your environment ID and product ID. See the prerequisites for Performing Day 2 operations using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle APIs.
• Verify that you have the ID of the snapshot that you want to revert to. See Create a Product Snapshot.
• If you are deleting a snapshot of VMware Aria Automation Config, verify that the tenant ID variable is assigned. See Creating and Managing Product Snapshots.

Procedure

1. Assign the snapshot ID variable.

   snapshotId = '<your_snapshot_ID>'

2. Delete the snapshot and power on the virtual appliance. To improve performance and minimize storage consumption, consolidate disk files after deletion by setting "consolidate": true.

   curl -X DELETE \
     '$url/lcm/lcops/api/environments/$environmentId/products/$productId/snapshot/inventory/revert' \
     -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
        "consolidate": true,
        "productSnapshotId": "'$snapshotId'"
   }' | jq "."

   Note: To delete a VMware Aria Automation Config snapshot, include the tenant ID as a query parameter in your request, for example:

   curl -X DELETE \
     '$url/lcm/lcops/api/environments/$environmentId/products/$productId/snapshot/inventory?tenantId=$tenantId' \
     -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
        "consolidate": "true",
        "productSnapshotId": "'$snapshotId'"
   }' | jq "."

   The request triggers the API. The response shows the request ID.

   {
       "requestId":"a3f77209-0005-44b3-9eb5-ac1a1ba19394"
   }

3. Assign the variable for the requestId.

   requestId = "a3f77209-0005-44b3-9eb5-ac1a1ba19394"

4. Use the requestId to track your request.

   curl -X GET '$url /lcm/request/api/v2/requests/$requestId' -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' | jq "."

   After the request succeeds, VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle has deleted the snapshot.

   ...
   },
     "outputMap": {},
     "state": "COMPLETED",
     "executionId": "59430b9d-44cc-47a1-90ec-777481edb9z9",
   ...