{"id":17375,"date":"2016-07-04T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/?p=17375"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:24:59","slug":"vsphere-6-0-remove-partitions-existing-storage-devices-via-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vsphere-6-0-remove-partitions-existing-storage-devices-via-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"vSphere 6.0: remove partitions from existing storage devices via UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17382 size-full\" title=\"vsphere60removepartitions01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vsphere60removepartitions01.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60removepartitions01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vsphere-6-0-update-1-released\/\">vSphere 6.0 Update 1<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>new UI option<\/strong>\u00a0has been introduced to easily\u00a0remove all existing data and partitions from\u00a0<strong>existing storage devices<\/strong> in your host.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to re-use an existing storage device, from the vSphere Web Client,\u00a0click the\u00a0ESXi host to process and select <strong>Manage &gt; Storage &gt; Storage Adapters<\/strong>. Highlight the device you want to erase then\u00a0click the <strong>eraser icon<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17383 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60removepartitions02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vsphere60removepartitions02-600x369.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60removepartitions02\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17394 size-full\" title=\"vsphere60removepartitions03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vsphere60removepartitions03.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60removepartitions03\" width=\"547\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The process takes few seconds to complete.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17395 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60removepartitions04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vsphere60removepartitions04-600x91.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60removepartitions04\" width=\"600\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Partitions have been removed successfully making the <strong>storage device\u00a0available<\/strong> for other purposes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17396 size-full\" title=\"vsphere60removepartitions05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vsphere60removepartitions05.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60removepartitions05\" width=\"547\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This feature allows to easily remove partitions with\u00a0few clicks without using tricky <strong>procedures via CLI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0vSphere 6.0 Update 1\u00a0a\u00a0new UI option\u00a0has been introduced to easily\u00a0remove all existing data and partitions from\u00a0existing storage devices in your host. If you want to re-use an existing storage device, from the vSphere Web Client,\u00a0click the\u00a0ESXi host to process and select Manage &gt; Storage &gt; Storage Adapters. Highlight the device you want to erase then\u00a0click the eraser icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[1698,702,700],"class_list":["post-17375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-partitions","tag-remove-en","tag-vsphere-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}