Remove-SCVirtualHardDisk

Syntax

Remove-SCVirtualHardDisk
      [-VirtualHardDisk] <VirtualHardDisk>
      [-JobGroup <Guid>]
      [-Force]
      [-RunAsynchronously]
      [-PROTipID <Guid>]
      [-JobVariable <String>]
      [-WhatIf]
      [-Confirm]
      [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The Remove-SCVirtualHardDisk cmdlet removes a virtual hard disk object from a virtual machine or template, or from the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) library. Remove-VirtualHardDisk also deletes the corresponding virtual hard disk file (a Windows-based .vhd file, a Citrix XenServer-based .vhd file, or a VMware-based .vmdk file) from the library server.

If the virtual hard disk is attached to a virtual disk drive on a virtual machine or template (and if you do not use the Force parameter), VMM lists the container that contains the virtual hard disk and prompts you to confirm that you want to remove the virtual hard disk:

• If you reply Yes, VMM removes the association between the virtual hard disk and the container to which it is attached, and then deletes the virtual hard disk object from VMM.

• If you reply No, the operation is cancelled.

This cmdlet returns the object upon success (with the property MarkedForDeletion set to True) or returns an error message upon failure.

Examples

Example 1: Remove a virtual hard disk object from the library

PS C:\> $VHD = Get-SCVirtualHardDisk -VMMServer "VMMServer01.Contoso.com" | where { $_.Name -eq "VHD01.vhd" -and $_.LibraryServer.Name -eq "LibraryServer01.Contoso.com" }
PS C:\> Remove-SCVirtualHardDisk -VirtualHardDisk $VHD

The first command gets the virtual hard disk object named VHD01.vhd stored on LibraryServer01 and stores the returned object in the $VHD variable.

The second command removes the virtual hard disk object stored in $VHD from the library and deletes the corresponding file from the file system on the library server.

Example 2: Remove a virtual hard disk from a virtual machine

PS C:\> Get-SCVMMServer -ComputerName "VMMServer01.Contoso.com"
PS C:\> $VHD = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM01" | Get-SCVirtualHardDisk | where { $_.Name -match "DataDisk" }
PS C:\> $VHD | Remove-SCVirtualHardDisk

The first command connects to VMMServer01.

The second command gets the virtual machine object named VM01, gets all virtual hard disks on VM01 whose name includes the string "DataDisk", and then stores these virtual hard disk objects in an array named $VHD.

The third command removes each virtual hard disk object stored in the $VHD array from the virtual machine and deletes each corresponding file from the file system on the library server.

Parameters

-Confirm

-Force

-JobGroup

-JobVariable

-PROTipID

-RunAsynchronously

-VirtualHardDisk

-WhatIf

Notes

• Requires a VMM virtual hard disk object, which can be retrieved by using the Get-SCVirtualHardDisk cmdlet.

Related Links

• Get-SCVirtualHardDisk
• Get-SCVirtualMachine
• Get-SCVMMServer
• Move-SCVirtualHardDisk
• Set-SCVirtualHardDisk