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/TCP 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 An icon showing three dots arranged in a vertical row, signifying a menu with more options, 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.