Display and remove snapshots from vCloud Director 5.1

Hi All,

I've been trying without success to create a PowerCLI script that will report back and delete all snapshot over x days.

If I run the vSphere 5.5 PowerCLI commands:

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Where { $_.Created -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-15)}

I get a list of snapshots that are over 15 days (for example).

My understanding is that if use this script as the basis for the 'Remove-Snapshot', it will 'break' vCloud Director so that is off the cards.

As there doesn't seem to be any native PowerCLI commands to deal with snapshots in vCloud Director 5.1, I altered the command above with help from the module from GeekAfterFive - Infrastructure as Code (I'm told that the API hasn't changed from 1.5 to 5.1)

If I rerun the command as such:

Get-CIVM | Get-CISnapshot | Where { $_.Created -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-15)}

I get the error message:

+ $streamReader = new-object System.IO.StreamReader($response.getResponseStream <<<< ())

+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (getResponseStream:String) [],    RuntimeException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

 

 

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Chris