About this task

This task deletes a consistency group.

• All of the snapshot groups of this consistency group are deleted.
• The consistency group members are always retained.
• In a case that the consistency group has a snapshot group - meaning that the members have snapshots - the snapshots also retain, but not as a part of a snapshot group.
• A dataset that is a member of a consistency group cannot be deleted individually.

Prerequisites

• A consistency group

Instructions

1. Right-click a consistency group and select Delete Group from the pop-up menu.
   The Delete Group screen opens.
   
2. Click Delete.
   The consistency group is deleted.

Related tasks

This task and all other filesystem tasks are available both on the GUI and InfiniShell.

Related GUI tasks

• Creating a consistency group

Related InfiniShell commands

• cg.create - create a new consistency group
• cg.add_member - add a member to a consistency group
• cg.delete - delete a consistency group
• cg.move - move a consistency group to another pool
• cg.remove_member - remove a member from a consistency group
• cg.restore - restore a consistency group from one of its snapshot groups
• cg.rename - rename a consistency group
• cg.query - list all consistency groups
• cg.member_query - list all of the members of a consistency group