I have exported list of all snapshots running on AHV in our environment. On a few snapshots, VM name is empty. I suspect, this is because VM has been deleted without deleting snapshot. Now how to delete such snapshots?
Below is example: Snapshot name is “removing ngt”
| VM-Name | Snapshot-Name | Creation-Time | |
| servername | Test Snapshot | 3/19/2019 11:00 | |
| removing ngt | 2/6/2020 1:00 |
Best answer by Alona
Hi Charu,
I would suggest to verify if the snapshot does belong to a non-existing VM first. You can pull the snapshot information with the aCLI command below:
nutanix@cvm$ acli snapshot.get <name_of_the_snapshot>
Look for “vm_uuid: ” field in the output. Then query cluster for the VM’s UUID (below is an example):
ncli vm ls id=60646064-e056-2f2f-0000-0e0733edcabcd [None]
If the output is [None] as in the example above then the snapshot is truly an orphan. To remove it please open a case with Nutanix Support.
Let me know if that helps, please.
+5Hi Charu,
I would suggest to verify if the snapshot does belong to a non-existing VM first. You can pull the snapshot information with the aCLI command below:
nutanix@cvm$ acli snapshot.get <name_of_the_snapshot>
Look for “vm_uuid: ” field in the output. Then query cluster for the VM’s UUID (below is an example):
ncli vm ls id=60646064-e056-2f2f-0000-0e0733edcabcd [None]
If the output is [None] as in the example above then the snapshot is truly an orphan. To remove it please open a case with Nutanix Support.
Let me know if that helps, please.
Thanks Alona, your suggestion helps me to confirm and delete the snapshot.
acli snapshot.delete <snapshot uuid>
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