Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

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Delete Snapshot Group

CAUTION: Possible damage to the storage array configuration – All of the data in the snapshot group is lost as soon as you run this command.

Description

This command deletes an entire snapshot group and optionally the associated member virtual disks.

Syntax

delete snapGroup ["snapGroupName"] [deleteRepositoryMembers=(TRUE | FALSE)]

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`snapGroup`	The alphanumeric identifier (including - and _) of the snapshot group that you want to delete. Enclose the snapshot group identifier in double quotation marks (" ") inside square brackets ([ ]).
`deleteRepositoryMembers`	The parameter to save or delete the member virtual disks. To save the member virtual disks, set this parameter to `FALSE`. To delete the member virtual disks, set this parameter to `TRUE`. The default value is `FALSE`.

Notes

You can delete a snapshot group if it is empty or if it contains snapshot images. All of the snapshot images in the snapshot group are deleted along with the snapshot group. If any existing snapshot image within the snapshot group has an associated view, each view is stopped and detached from the snapshot image. When you delete a snapshot group the associated repository virtual disk is also deleted. By default, all member virtual disks in the repository virtual disk are retained as unused, unmapped standard virtual disks. To remove the member virtual disks set the deleteRepositoryMembers parameter to TRUE, or do not use this parameter. To keep the member virtual disks, set the deleteRepositoryMembers parameter to FALSE.