Deleting cloud groups

You can delete cloud groups when they are no longer needed in a deployed environment.

Before you begin

Before you remove a cloud group, ensure that no IP groups, compute nodes or virtual machines are associated with the cloud group. You cannot delete the cloud group until these are removed.
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

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

  1. Access the console pane.Click Cloud > Architecture > Cloud Groups.
  2. Select the cloud group that you want to delete.
  3. Ensure that there are no IP groups, compute nodes or virtual machines in the cloud group.
    You must first stop them and remove them before you can delete the cloud group.

    To see if there are virtual machines in this cloud group, expand Virtual machines in the cloud group details. To see if there are IP groups in this cloud group, expand IP Groups in the cloud group details. To see if there are compute nodes in this cloud group, expand Compute nodes in the cloud group details.

  4. Click the Delete icon in the toolbar.
    Click OK to confirm that you want to delete the cloud group.