How to remove offline iSCSI storage?

[MagicFab]

I've retired a problematic iSCSI from a PVE system and now I can't seem to remove it from the configuration, via the web UI itself - it always shows up as "offline" - ie. "storage 'XYZ' is not online (500)".

How can I remove this from all configurations?

 

[udo]

Hi,
the ugly way: "vi /etc/pve/storage.cfg" and remove the entry... and grep for the storage-name in the VM-confs.

Udo

 

[Gerhard W. Recher]

I've retired a problematic iSCSI from a PVE system and now I can't seem to remove it from the configuration, via the web UI itself - it always shows up as "offline" - ie. "storage 'XYZ' is not online (500)".

How can I remove this from all configurations?

for my knowledge remove iscsi entry from /etc/pve/storage.cfg and from lio or whatever you used to define it

 

[MagicFab]

I had to go to Storage view and there I had no problem removing it - almost obvious. Thanks fro the replies!

 

[fireon]

If you removed the entry in PVE, then you must remove the iscsi from the hostconfig. If you don't do this, pve will connect to the iscsishare every boot. So try like this:

1) iscsiadm -m node -T <target> -u
2) iscsiadm -m node -T <target> -o delete
3) if /etc/iscsi/send_targets/initiator/ which target belongs to is empty
rm -rf /etc/iscsi/send_targets/initiator/
4) remove from pve

The thing is the same like NFS or other storagetypes, you disable it in pve, but this does not mean disable or unmount it on the system. For these things, the admin is responsible.

 

[kalasnikov]

If you removed the entry in PVE, then you must remove the iscsi from the hostconfig. If you don't do this, pve will connect to the iscsishare every boot. So try like this:

1) iscsiadm -m node -T <target> -u
2) iscsiadm -m node -T <target> -o delete
3) if /etc/iscsi/send_targets/initiator/ which target belongs to is empty
rm -rf /etc/iscsi/send_targets/initiator/
4) remove from pve

The thing is the same like NFS or other storagetypes, you disable it in pve, but this does not mean disable or unmount it on the system. For these things, the admin is responsible.

What about if I do this will it disconnect the other targets as well?

 

[Tmanok]

What about if I do this will it disconnect the other targets as well?

No, because you specify the target you want to remove e.g. "iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:LUN". Also, this methodology seems to apply in 2022 but I'd love to hear that I am wrong or will soon be wrong about that.

Tmanok