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Remove-VMSnapshot



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Remove-VMSnapshot', in PowerShell version 3 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

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SYNOPSIS

Deletes a virtual machine snapshot.

SYNTAX


Remove-VMSnapshot [-VMName] <String[]> [[-Name] <String[]>] [-AsJob] [-ComputerName <String[]>] [-IncludeAllChildSnapshots] [-Passthru]
[<CommonParameters>]
Remove-VMSnapshot [-VM] <VirtualMachine[]> [[-Name] <String[]>] [-AsJob] [-IncludeAllChildSnapshots] [-Passthru] [<CommonParameters>]
Remove-VMSnapshot [-VMSnapshot] <VMSnapshot[]> [-AsJob] [-IncludeAllChildSnapshots] [-Passthru] [<CommonParameters>]



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DESCRIPTION


The Remove-VMSnapshot deletes a virtual machine snapshot.



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Examples


Example 1

PS C:\>Get-VM TestVM | Remove-VMSnapshot –Name Experiment*



Deletes all snapshots of virtual machine TestVM whose names starts with Experiment.




Example 2

PS C:\>Get-VMSnapshot -VMName TestVM | Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-90) } | Remove-VMSnapshot



Deletes all snapshots of virtual machine TestVM older than 90 days.