Deleting vvols in container from 3par

[Sanja1]

How do I delete vvols inside contianer derectly from 3par?

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1. Moving from NAS to HPE 3PAR StoreServ storage with iSCSI VVols without sacrificing simplicity - Implementation Guide

2. HPE XP VASA Provider for XP Storage (3.7.0) vVols Replication Guide

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[sbhat09]

Hello @Sanja1,

Nice to see you back here. how are you doing?

Actually you can't delete the storage containers in a straight forward way like you do with the virtual volumes. Those vvols are managed by the virtualization/container orchestrator softwares.

The way I know to delete the container vvols is by the command 'setvvolsc -remove <vvset_name>
where the <vvset_name> is the vvset name that is used as a VVol storage container.
Please check if this works for you.

Regards,
Srinivas Bhat

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[Eric_Siebert]

Hi there,

You should never attempt to delete vVols directly from the array unless they have somehow become orphaned. In normal operations deleting the VM in vCenter will delete all vVols associated with that VM on the array.

However if you have identified orphaned vVols you would use the below steps to delete them.

1) Use the showvvolvm -vv -sc <scname> command with scname being the name of the storage container that the vVols are in. That command will help you identify the vVols that are associated with whatever VM has orphans.

2) Use the statvlun command to identify any SubLUN bindings to those vVols that may still exist. Normally vVols are only bound to a host when the VM is powered on and then unbound when powered off.

3) Use the removevlun command to remove any bindings you identify as still bound to those vVols.

4) Use the removevv command to delete the vVols.

Eric Siebert
Product Manager - VMware integration
HPE Storage