Deleting Instances (VM)

Owned by Chung, Donald (STFC,RAL,SC)
Last updated: Aug 16, 2023 by Chris Green
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You should always refer to Creating Snapshots from Instance as this process is not reversible and may result in data loss.

Web Interface

  1. In Web Interface Compute->Instances, select the VM you wish to delete

  2. Click DELETE INSTANCES 

  3. Confirm by clicking DELETE INSTANCES 

 

Command-line

Find the instance ID with openstack server list 

$ openstack server list +--------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | Image | Flavor | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | c3b01eac-b5c7-4f57-8b09-f575f37cfe25 | delete-cli | ACTIVE | Internal=172.16.113.107 | ubuntu-focal-20.04-nogui | c3.small | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------------+

Run

openstack server delete <instance-id>

Example

$ openstack server delete c3b01eac-b5c7-4f57-8b09-f575f37cfe25