Delete a Product Snapshot

You can use the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager API to delete a product snapshot created using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

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 vRealize Operations Manager 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 vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 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 SaltStack Config or vRealize Business for Cloud, 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 SaltStack Config or vRealize Business for Cloud 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, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager has deleted the snapshot.

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