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

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Delete Virtual Disk On A Disk Pool

Description

This command deletes either normal or thin virtual disks on a disk pool.
  • CAUTION: All of the data in the virtual disk is lost as soon as you run this command.

Syntax

delete (allVirtualDisks |
                                 virtualDisk [
                                 virtualDiskName] |
                                 virtualDisks [
                                 virtualDiskName1 ... virtualDiskNameN] | allVirtual disks)
                                 [removeDiskGroup=(TRUE | FALSE)
                                 retainRepositoryMembers=(TRUE | FALSE)]
                                 force=(TRUE | FALSE)
                                 schedule
                                 retainRepositoryMembers=(TRUE | FALSE)]

Parameters

Parameter Description
allVirtualDisks This parameter deletes all of the virtual disks on a disk pool.
virtualDisk or virtualDisks The name of the virtual disk that you want to delete. You can enter more than one virtual disk name. Enclose the virtual disk name in square brackets ([ ]). If the virtual disk name has special characters, you also must enclose the virtual disk name in double quotation marks (" ").
removeDiskGroup Deleting the last virtual disk in a disk group does not delete the disk group. You can have a standalone disk group (minus any virtual disks). To remove the standalone disk group, set this parameter to TRUE. To keep standalone disk groups intact, set this parameter to FALSE.
force Use this parameter to force the immediate deletion of a virtual disk even if the RAID controller modules are performing other operations. To immediately force the deletion of a virtual disk, set this parameter to TRUE. To wait until the RAID controller modules have finished performing other operations, do not use this parameter or set this parameter to FALSE.
schedule  
retainRepositoryMembers When you delete a thin virtual disk, the associated repository virtual disk is deleted by default. However, when the retainRepositoryMembers is set to TRUE, the repository virtual disk is retained. For normal virtual disks, this parameter has no effect.

Notes

When you use the allVirtualDisks parameter, this command deletes virtual disks until all of the virtual disks are removed or until an error is encountered. If an error is encountered, this command does not try to delete the remaining virtual disks. Deleting virtual disks from different disk groups is possible. All of the disk groups that become empty are deleted if you set the removeDiskGroup parameter to TRUE.

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