Error deleting virtual ports:Virtual ports cannot be deleted when zone paths are configured

In Unisphere, go to Setting/Network and select the interface, click on Properties, select the Virtual Port and click Delete.

glen

Hello Glen,

I have an RPA connected to the iSCSI ports and we have a Virtual port created for these RPA connections.

I need to move the connection of these RPA s to a new port, but I need to use the same IP.

Hence I thought of deleting the Virtual Port from SPA and assigning the same IP and details to another port, but the VNX is not allowing me to delete the Port using the same steps as advised by you above .

Error which I am getting is as follows  :-

Error deleting virtual port: Virtual port cannot be deleted when zone paths are configured.

Please advice what can be done here.

Hi siddhant_47,

I was able to accomplish this recently by doing the following steps in order:

1. Change the IP address of the old virtual port -> this will make it unreachable for whatever connection/path might be using it
2. Go to Hosts -> Initiators -> Deregister all the initiators that show up as Not Logged In that are registered to the port you're trying to change
3. Now that nothing is using that IP on that port you should be able to delete the Virtual port configuration.

As a side note, in my case, I only had one Virtual port on the physical port I was changing. I'm moving a VNX5200 from 1Gb links to 10Gb links and I'm also keeping the same IP addresses.

Where you able to delete the Virtual ports? I am facing the same issue!