[Users] How to force remove hosts, storage, datacenters

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/20/2013 11:19 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Itamar Heim  wrote:
>> On 04/11/2013 03:22 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Juan Jose wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Gianluca,
>>>>
>>>> Recently I had a problem similar caused for an electrical power down
>>>> unexpected. To remove VMs and storage domain I had to add first a new
>>>> Master
>>>> storage domain and after that I could delete it because they didn't exist
>>>> fisically.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know If you have some element as VMs that are attached to this
>>>> host
>>>> or something like that. I hope that this cab be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> It was just a newly created DC with one cluster and no VMs.
>>> Ok for your method that I already used in the past, but I would prefer
>>> a smarter way to disable / redefine a datacenter.
>>> Especially if it is empty.
>>
>>
>> why couldn't you move the host to maint, then force remove the DC?
>>
>
> Yes my first error was to put SD into maintenance, that I don't know
> exactly what kind of effects is expected to produce...
> Next time I will have better doing what you say
>
> But it remains something strange (to me) this workflow:
> select storage then select a particular SD, then in the below pane
> select  datacenter tab, select the DC of the SD and then
> maintenance...
> what is expected to do?
>
> Gianluca
>

detach the SD from that DC, as some types of SDs can be connected to 
multiple DCs.
i agree for those that can't, you should open a BZ requesting to have a 
move to maint button on the main grid (but that could be confusing, 
since some SDs will have that in the main grid, and some will have it 
only in the subtab...)