Remove or revert snapshot by its id

[yyosha]

SUMMARY

In module "community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot":
Removing a snapshot is done by the snapshot name.
If there are multiple snapshots with the same name, and not ALL need to be removed, there is no way to differentiate them from one another.

ISSUE TYPE

• Add a new parameter "snapshot_id" to the "community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot" module which will be used to select a unique snapshot.

COMPONENT NAME

community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The new parameter will be used as an alternative to "snapshot_name".
Only one of the parameters could be used, to prevent conflicts.

---
- name: create new snapshot and then delete old snapshots
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false

  tasks:
    - name: Gather detailed information about tags and category associated with the given VM
      community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot_info:
        datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
        folder: "{{ path | regex_replace('^(.*)vm', '') }}"
        name: "{{ config.name }}"
      delegate_to: localhost
      register: snapshots_info

    - name: create new snapshot
      community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot:
        snapshot_name: "mySnapshot"
        description: "This snapshot is created by AWX"
        datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
        folder: "{{ path | regex_replace('^(.*)vm', '') }}"
        name: "{{ config.name }}"
        state: present
        memory_dump: true
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Remove only snapshots from list, 
      community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot:
        datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
        folder: "{{ path | regex_replace('^(.*)vm', '') }}"
        name: "{{ config.name }}"
        snapshot_id: "{{ item.id }}"
        state: absent
      delegate_to: localhost
      loop: "{{ snapshots_info.guest_snapshots.snapshots }}"

[sky-joker]

Hi @yyosha
Thank you for requesting the feature!

I will try to make a patch for implementing the feature.

[sky-joker]

Hi @yyosha

I made the patch to implement the feature. #1847
Could you please check the module behavior in your environment?
And let me know the result.