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PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CloudPools Administration Guide

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Delete a cloud storage account (CLI)

You can delete a cloud storage account. However, proceed with extreme caution, as deleting an account results in loss of cloud data.

Prerequisites

CAUTION Deleting an account results in the permanent loss of access to the data. In effect, you are deleting the data.

Rather than deleting the cloud storage account, you can stop archiving data to a cloud storage account without deleting it by running the isi cloud pools modify command and removing the account from its parent CloudPool. Previously archived files remain in cloud storage, and SmartLink files on the local cluster still point to the cloud data.

Consider the following before deleting a cloud storage account:

  • It is recommended that you contact Dell EMC customer support prior to deleting a cloud storage account.
  • NDPM, SyncIQ, and Snapshots may be referencing the SmartLink files, which will not function if you delete the associated cloud storage account.
  • Cloud objects are not cleaned up when an account is deleted using this command. The cloud objects must be manually removed after deleting the account.
  • To delete an account, there must not be any storage pools using that account. Because of dependencies, this usually means that you must first:
    • delete (or modify) all policies that refer to storage pools referencing the account
    • delete (or modify) all storage pools that refer to the account

Steps

  1. Run the isi cloud accounts delete command.
    The following command deletes the cloud storage account OldRecords. 
    isi cloud accounts delete OldRecords --acknowledge yes 
     
			 
    In this case, OneFS responds with the following message: 
			 
     
			 
    ***************************************************
WARNING: Deleting an account is extremely dangerous.
Continuing with this operation will result in a permanent loss of data.
Type 'confirm delete data' to proceed.  Press enter to cancel:
  2. Type the confirmation string confirm delete data, then press ENTER.
    The cloud storage account is deleted. Although cloud data remains with your cloud provider, it is not in a format that anyone can access. It cannot be used to reconstruct the files. .

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