Removing a Storage Policy
Explains how to remove tiering policies for storage using either the Control System, the CLI, or the REST API.
About this task
WARNING You cannot remove a storage policy that is associated with a volume.
Removing a Rule Using the Control System
Procedure
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Log in to the Control System and go to Storage
Policies tab under .
NOTE The Volumes page is under the Volumes menu in the Kubernetes version of the Control System.The list of storage policies displays.
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Select the checkbox associated with the storage policy to remove and
click Remove Policy.
The Remove Policy confirmation window displays.
- Review the list of policies to remove and click Remove.
Removing a Rule Using the CLI and the REST API
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Run the following command to remove a storage policy that is not associated
with a volume:
# maprcli tier rule remove -name <rule_name>If you try to remove a rule associated with a volume, the command returns an error (shown in
bold) similar to the following:
# maprcli tier rule remove -name rule1 -json
{
"timestamp":1516771655669,
"timeofday":"2018-01-23 09:27:35.669 GMT-0800",
"status":"ERROR",
"errors":[{
"id":10003,
"desc":"Cannot remove rule, as some volumes are still using it."
}]
}Send a request of type POST. For example:
# curl -k -X POST 'https://abc.sj.us:8443/rest/tier/rule/remove?name=sampleRule' --user mapr:mapr
{"timestamp":1523571783113,"timeofday":"2018-04-12 03:23:03.113 GMT-0700 PM","status":"OK","total":0,"data":[],"messages":["Successfully deleted rule: 'sampleRule'"]}# curl -k -X POST 'https://abc.sj.us:8443/rest/tier/rule/remove?name=sampleRule' --user mapr:mapr
{"timestamp":1523571741636,"timeofday":"2018-04-12 03:22:21.636 GMT-0700 PM","status":"ERROR","errors":[{"id":10003,"desc":"Can not remove rule, as some volumes are still using it."}]}For more information, see tier rule remove.