Remove All Snapshots does not work when multiple Virtual Machines are selected

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• Delete All Snapshots for multiple VMs at the same time doesn't work.
• The snapshot will be removed on one VM, but on the other VMs the snapshot remains.
• An error generated from cloud director states:
  
  VM1
[ #########-####-####-####-######### ] The entity Ref: com.vmware.vcloud.entity.vm: #########-####-####-####-######### is busy completing an operation VAPP_REMOVE_ALL_SNAPSHOTS. VAPP_REMOVE_ALL_SNAPSHOTS(com.vmware.vcloud.entity.task: #########-####-####-####-#########)
VM2
[  #########-####-####-####-######### ] The entity Ref: com.vmware.vcloud.entity.vm: #########-####-####-####-######### is busy completing an operation VAPP_REMOVE_ALL_SNAPSHOTS. VAPP_REMOVE_ALL_SNAPSHOTS(com.vmware.vcloud.entity.task: #########-####-####-####-#########)
VM3
Succeeded
  
  
• Users cannot remove snapshots from multiple virtual machines at the same time.
  • In the VCD UI, 
    • Select the Virtual Machines view.
    • Filter on VMs that have a snapshot
    • Enable the Multiselect option.
    • Select 2 or more Virtual machines
    • Click on Remove All snapshots 
    • After clicking Remove All, nothing happens. No task starts and the snapshots are not removed

         

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1.x

Cause

This is a known issue which will be addressed in a future release. 

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Resolution

As a workaround, you can remove snapshots for virtual machines by selecting 1 VM at a time.