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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Shrink vVols datastores

Contributors netapp-jani

Delete datastore action deletes the datastore when there are no vVols on the selected datastore.

Steps

  1. From the vSphere Client home page, click Hosts and Clusters.

  2. In the navigation pane, select the datacenter that contains the datastore.

  3. Right click on the vVol datastore and select NetApp ONTAP tools > Remove storage from datastore.

  4. Select volumes which do not have vVols and click Remove.

    Note The option to select the volume on which the vVols is residing is disabled.

  5. In the Remove storage pop-up, select Delete volumes from ONTAP cluster checkbox to delete the volumes from datastore and from ONTAP storage and click Delete.