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How to identify and remove unattached GCP disks

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Applies to

  • Goog Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)

Description

  • Disks are attached to CVO via Cloud Manager as part of aggregate create task
  • If this process fails, unattached disks in GCP may get left behind
  • This article describes how to identify these disks and remove them safely

Procedure

  1. List out any unattached disks in gcp:

gcloud compute disks list --filter="-users:*"

  1. Verify that the disks are not registered by ONTAP as 'Unassigned' or 'Spare'

Cluster::> set d
Cluster::*> disk show -container-type spare,unassigned

Note: In case they are, follow How to manually remove disks in the GCP console for Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances

  1. If they aren't registered in ONTAP, they can be safely removed

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