Deleting Virtual Disks

When virtual disks are deleted, data existing on the virtual disks is permanently destroyed. When a virtual disk is deleted, the SAUs allocated to the virtual disk go into reclamation in the pool.

 Important Notes:

o           Virtual disks cannot be deleted if served to hosts.

o           If deleting the source of a snapshot:

·            Full snapshots that are fully migrated are preserved and usable.

·            Differential snapshots will be deleted. To preserve the snapshot, promote to full and allow the data to migrate completely before deleting the snapshot source.

o           If deleting a virtual disk that is the source of a rollback, all rollbacks will also be deleted.

o           Virtual disks that are the source or destination of a replication cannot be deleted, the replication must be split first.

o           When deleting a virtual disk that is created from a pass-through disk, this operation does not delete data on the pass-through disk.

To delete virtual disks:

1            In the DataCore Servers Panel, right-click the virtual disk and choose Delete from the menu. Tip

2           A confirmation message appears; read the message carefully. To continue with the operation, click the check box, then click Yes.