Remove Old Virtual Machine Disk Snapshots

01 Sign in to your Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account, access Check for Remove Old Virtual Machine Disk Snapshots conformity rule settings and identify the threshold (i.e. number of days) configured for the disk snapshot age.

02 Sign in to Azure Management Portal.

03 Navigate to All resources blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseAll to access all your Microsoft Azure resources.

04 Choose the Azure subscription that you want to access from the Subscription filter box.

05 From the Type filter box, select Snapshot to list only the virtual machine (VM) disk snapshots created in the selected Azure subscription.

06 Click on the name of the VM disk snapshot that you want to examine.

07 In the navigation panel, select Overview to access the configuration details available for the selected disk snapshot.

08 On the Overview panel, check the DATE CREATED attribute value to determine when the selected snapshot was created. Compare the snapshot age with the threshold value identified at step no. 1. If the age of the verified resource is higher than the configured threshold, the selected Azure virtual machine disk snapshot is considered old and can be safely removed from your cloud account.

09 Repeat steps no. 6 – 8 for each Azure VM disk snapshot available in the selected subscription.

10 Repeat steps no. 4 – 9 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.

01 Sign in to your Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account, access Check for Remove Old Virtual Machine Disk Snapshots conformity rule settings and identify the threshold configured for the disk snapshot age.

02 Run account list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to list the IDs of the subscriptions available in your Azure account:

az account list
	--query '[*].id'

03 The command output should return the requested subscription identifiers (IDs):

[
  "abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd",
  "abcd1234-abcd-1234-abcd-abcd1234abcd",
]

04 Run snapshot list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to list the name and the associated resource group of virtual machine (VM) disk snapshot created in the selected Azure subscription:

az snapshot list
	--subscription abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd
	--output table
	--query '[*].{name:name, resourceGroup:resourceGroup}'

05 The command output should return the requested disk snapshot identifiers:

Name                 ResourceGroup
-------------------  ------------------------------
cc-vm-data-snapshot  cloud-shell-storage-westeurope
cc-vm-prod-snapshot  cloud-shell-storage-westeurope

06 Run snapshot show command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the name of the virtual machine disk snapshot that you want to examine as identifier parameter, to describe the date when the selected disk snapshot was created:

az snapshot show
	--name cc-vm-data-snapshot
	--resource-group cloud-shell-storage-westeurope
	--subscription abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd
	--query 'timeCreated'

07 The command output should return the requested date in human readable format:

"2018-07-01T10:30:15.00+00:00"

08 Repeat step no. 6 and 7 for each Azure VM disk snapshot provisioned in the selected subscription.

09 Repeat steps no. 4 – 8 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.

01 Sign in to Azure Management Portal.

02 Navigate to All resources blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseAll to access all your Microsoft Azure resources.

03 Choose the Azure subscription that you want to access from the Subscription filter box.

04 From the Type filter box, select Snapshot to list only the virtual machine (VM) disk snapshots available in the selected Azure subscription.

05 Click on the name of the VM disk snapshot that you want to remove.

06 In the navigation panel, select Overview, and click Delete to initiate the snapshot removal.

07 Inside the Delete snapshot confirmation box, click Yes to confirm the VM disk snapshot removal.

08 Repeat steps no. 5 – 7 to delete other obsolete Azure virtual machine disk snapshots available in the selected subscription.

09 Repeat steps no. 3 – 8 for each subscription available in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.

01 Run snapshot delete command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the name of the virtual machine disk snapshot that you want to delete as identifier parameter, to remove the selected disk snapshot from your Azure cloud account (the command does not produce an output):

az snapshot delete
	--name cc-vm-data-snapshot
	--resource-group cloud-shell-storage-westeurope
	--subscription abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd

02 Repeat step no. 1 to remove other old Azure virtual machine disk snapshots provisioned in the selected subscription.

03 Repeat step no. 1 and 2 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.