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Delete an Elastic SAN (preview)

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To delete an elastic storage area network (SAN), you first need to disconnect every volume in your Elastic SAN (preview) from any connected hosts.

Disconnect volumes from clients

Windows

To delete iSCSI connections to volumes, you'll need to get StorageTargetIQN, StorageTargetPortalHostName, and StorageTargetPortalPort from your Azure Elastic SAN volume.

Run the following commands to get these values:

# Get the target name and iSCSI portal name to connect a volume to a client 
$connectVolume = Get-AzElasticSanVolume -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ElasticSanName $sanName -VolumeGroupName $searchedVolumeGroup -Name $searchedVolume
$connectVolume.storagetargetiqn
$connectVolume.storagetargetportalhostname
$connectVolume.storagetargetportalport

Note down the values for StorageTargetIQN, StorageTargetPortalHostName, and StorageTargetPortalPort, you'll need them for the next commands.

In your compute client, retrieve the sessionID for the Elastic SAN volumes you'd like to disconnect using iscsicli SessionList.

Replace yourStorageTargetIQN, yourStorageTargetPortalHostName, and yourStorageTargetPortalPort with the values you kept, then run the following commands from your compute client to disconnect an Elastic SAN volume.

iscsicli RemovePersistentTarget $yourStorageTargetIQN $yourStorageTargetPortalPort $yourStorageTargetPortalHostName

iscsicli LogoutTarget <sessionID>

Linux

To delete iSCSI connections to volumes, you'll need to get StorageTargetIQN, StorageTargetPortalHostName, and StorageTargetPortalPort from your Azure Elastic SAN volume.

Run the following command to get these values:

az elastic-san volume-group list -e $sanName -g $resourceGroupName -v $searchedVolumeGroup -n $searchedVolume

Note down the values for StorageTargetIQN, StorageTargetPortalHostName, and StorageTargetPortalPort, you'll need them for the next commands.

Replace yourStorageTargetIQN, yourStorageTargetPortalHostName, and yourStorageTargetPortalPort with the values you kept, then run the following commands from your compute client to connect an Elastic SAN volume.

iscsiadm --mode node --target **yourStorageTargetIQN** --portal **yourStorageTargetPortalHostName**:**yourStorageTargetPortalPort** --logout

Delete a SAN

When your SAN has no active connections to any clients, you may delete it using the Azure portal or Azure PowerShell module.

First, delete each volume.

Remove-AzElasticSanVolume -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ElasticSanName $sanName -VolumeGroupName $volumeGroupName -Name $volumeName

Then, delete each volume group.

Remove-AzElasticSanVolumeGroup -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ElasticSanName $sanName -Name $volumeGroupName

Finally, delete the Elastic SAN itself.

Remove-AzElasticSan -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $sanName

Next steps

Plan for deploying an Elastic SAN (preview)