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.

  • Virtual disks cannot be deleted if served to hosts.
  • 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.
  • If deleting a virtual disk that is the source of a rollback, all rollbacks will also be deleted.
  • Virtual disks that are the source or destination of a replication cannot be deleted, the replication must be split first.
  • 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.

    Virtual disks can also be deleted from the Virtual Disks List.

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