vSphere Plugin: Destroying a VMFS Datastore

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Destroying a VMFS datastore through the Everpure vSphere plugin will automatically unmount it from all attached hosts, removes it and all snapshots from the FlashArray and lastly does a ESXi storage rescan. By default, the volume and all snapshots are fully recoverable from the FlashArray for 24 hours after deletion.

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Prior to destroying a VMFS datastore, it is required to make sure that all VMs that reside on that volume have either been deleted, storage vMotioned to a different datastore or powered off and removed from vSphere inventory.

To proceed with deleting the datastore, select it within vSphere, right-click and open the Everpure menu option. Next, select the Destroy Datastore option. This will launch a window to confirm that you wish to proceed with datastore removal. This procedure is shown in the two below images.

From the FlashArray GUI, we can see that the volume is available to be restored for 24 hours.