# Deleting an Instance Checkpoint

This guide will cover Deleting an Instance Checkpoint

##### **Deleting an Instance Checkpoint**

1. **Navigate to the Tenant Portal**  
    Navigate to [https://tenant.enseva.com](https://tenant.enseva.com) and enter your login credentials, then sign into your account.  
    For the purposes of this tutorial we already have a virtual machine with a friendly name of 'vm\_test' that has a checkpoint created for it named 'checkpoint\_one'  
      
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2. **Select Virtual Machine**  
    Click on the virtual machine's name in which you would like to delete a checkpoint, this will bring you to the vm's dashboard.  
      
    [![screen1.png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/LZyscreen1.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/LZyscreen1.png)  
      
    [![screen2.png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/3V3screen2.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/3V3screen2.png)
3. **Select Checkpoints**  
    From the dashboard, select checkpoints near the top of the page, then select the checkpoint in which you would like to delete.  
      
    [![screen1 (2).png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/Lfjscreen1-2.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/Lfjscreen1-2.png)
4. **Delete a Checkpoint**  
    Near the bottom of the page, click the 'Delete' button.  
      
    [![screen2 (1).png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/JDVscreen2-1.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/JDVscreen2-1.png)
5. **Confirm Selection**  
    A pop-up bar will appear towards the bottom of the screen asking you to confirm your decision, select 'Yes'  
      
    [![screen3.png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/8m2screen3.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/8m2screen3.png)
6. **Verify Removal**  
    A pop-up bar towards the bottom of the screen will indicate that a checkpoint is being deleted, wait for this operation to complete.  
      
    When the operation has finished you will notice the message within the bottom pop-up bar change to Successfully deleted checkpoint 'checkpoint\_name' for virtual machine 'Virtual\_machine'  
      
    [![screen4.png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/NV4screen4.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/NV4screen4.png)  
      
    [![screen5.png](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/xr9screen5.png)](https://docs.enseva.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/xr9screen5.png)