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# Delete masking views

A masking view is a container of a storage group, a port group, and an initiator group, and makes the storage group visible to the host.

## Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

## About this task

This procedure explains how to perform the operation from the Masking Views list view. You can also perform this operation from the vVol Dashboard > PE Masking Views and the vVol Dashboard > vVol NVMe Masking Views list views. In eNAS operating environments, you can also perform this operation from the File Masking Views page (System > System Dashboard > File Dashboard > File Masking Views list views.

Some of the following properties and controls are environment-specific and may appear in a different order or not at all.

## Steps

1. Select the storage system.
2. Select Hosts > Masking Views to open the Masking View list view.
3. Select the masking view from the list, click , and then click Delete.
4. To delete the associated storage groups, select Delete Storage Group(s).
5. To delete the associated port groups, select Delete Port Group(s).
6. Click OK.