Deleting volumes
You can delete volumes when the space is no longer needed in a deployed environment.
Before you begin
You must be
assigned one of the following permissions to perform these steps:
- System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission)
- Resource level administration role with All access rights permission (ACL) to view, modify and delete a specific instance
About this task
Volumes are first level objects that exist outside of the virtual machine, therefore deleting the virtual machine does not automatically delete the volumes. Because they are explicitly created, they must be explicitly deleted.
You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.
Procedure
- Click Cloud > Volumes.
- Locate the volume to delete in the list of available volumes.
- Delete the volume. You can click the name of the volume to display the details, and then click Delete in the toolbar or you can click the Delete icon in the Actions column for the selected volume.
- When prompted to confirm that you want to delete the volume,
click Delete to proceed or Cancel to
cancel the request. If you proceed, the volume is removed from the list.