#!/usr/bin/env python3 from pyVmomi import vim import pyVim.connect import atexit import argparse from pprint import pprint import sys import siteconf site_conf = siteconf.read() def get_args(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description='Deletes a vm snapshot.') parser.add_argument('-s', '--site', required=True, action='store', help='name of the site to connect to') parser.add_argument('-v', '--vm', required=True, action='store', help='vm to delete snapshot from') parser.add_argument('-n', '--snapshotname', required=True, action='store', help='snapshot name') args = parser.parse_args() return args def get_obj(content, vimtype, name): """ Return an object by name, if name is None the first found object is returned """ obj = None container = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView( content.rootFolder, vimtype, True) for c in container.view: if name: if c.name == name: obj = c break else: obj = c break return obj def wait_for_task(task): """ wait for a vCenter task to finish """ task_done = False while not task_done: if task.info.state == 'success': return task.info.result if task.info.state == 'error': print("there was an error") task_done = True def find_snapshots(snapshots, name): snap_obj = [] for snapshot in snapshots: if snapshot.name == name: snap_obj.append(snapshot) snap_obj = snap_obj + find_snapshots( snapshot.childSnapshotList, name) return snap_obj def main(): args = get_args() if not args.site in site_conf: print(f"site not found: {args.site}") exit(1) host = site_conf[args.site]['vcenter'] user = site_conf[args.site]['vcenter_user'] passwd = site_conf[args.site]['vcenter_passwd'] si = pyVim.connect.SmartConnect( host = host, user = user, pwd = passwd, disableSslCertValidation = True ) atexit.register(pyVim.connect.Disconnect, si) content = si.RetrieveContent() vm = get_obj(content, [vim.VirtualMachine], args.vm) if vm == None: print("vm not found: "+ args.vm) exit(1) if vm.snapshot is None: print("vm has no snapshots: "+ args.vm) exit(1) snaplist = find_snapshots(vm.snapshot.rootSnapshotList, args.snapshotname) for s in snaplist: print(f"removing {args.vm} snapshot {s.name} ({s.createTime})") remove_children = False consolidate = True wait_for_task(s.snapshot.RemoveSnapshot_Task(remove_children, consolidate)) if __name__ == "__main__": main() # vim: set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab smarttab: