Configure and Provision the Datastore › Deprovision the Datastore

Deprovision the Datastore

You can select one or more datastores and can submit the request to deprovision. If the selected datastore is in use, the deprovisioning request is canceled and you receive an email notification.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to CA Service Catalog.
2. Click CA Automation Suite for Clouds, Server Automation Services.
3. Click Infrastructure Management under the VMware ESX Management menu.

   The Infrastructure Management page opens.

4. Click Deprovision Datastore.

   A list of datastores that are provisioned to the user opens.

5. Select the datastore that you want to return.
6. Click Add to Cart and Check Out.
7. Click Save and Submit Cart.

   A confirmation message appears indicating that your request was submitted successfully.

8. The status of the request is changed to Pending SSRM Resource Pool Modification. The request gets assigned to the Service Administrator (defined in the configuration), and an email is sent to the Service Provider.

   The Service Administrator modifies the pool manually by removing the datastore from the pool and changes the request status to Datastore detached from Pool.

   The request is processed to remove the datastore from the ESX Host or Cluster, and the dataset is deleted from the storage server.

   The selected datastore is removed.