engine/api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/engine/subsystem/api/storage/VMSnapshotStrategy.java

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package org.apache.cloudstack.engine.subsystem.api.storage;

import com.cloud.vm.snapshot.VMSnapshot;

public interface VMSnapshotStrategy {
    VMSnapshot takeVMSnapshot(VMSnapshot vmSnapshot);

    boolean deleteVMSnapshot(VMSnapshot vmSnapshot);

    boolean revertVMSnapshot(VMSnapshot vmSnapshot);

    StrategyPriority canHandle(VMSnapshot vmSnapshot);

    /**
     * Delete vm snapshot only from database. Introduced as a Vmware optimization in which vm snapshots are deleted when
     * the vm gets deleted on hypervisor (no need to delete each vm snapshot before deleting vm, just mark them as deleted on DB)
     * @param vmSnapshot vm snapshot to be marked as deleted.
     * @return true if vm snapshot removed from DB, false if not.
     */
    boolean deleteVMSnapshotFromDB(VMSnapshot vmSnapshot);
}