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Remove-VirtualDisk



This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Remove-VirtualDisk', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.

For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.

SYNOPSIS

Deletes an existing virtual disk and reclaims the used space for use by other virtual disks in the same storage pool.

SYNTAX


Remove-VirtualDisk [-FriendlyName] <String[]> [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-PassThru] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Remove-VirtualDisk [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-PassThru] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -Name <String[]> [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Remove-VirtualDisk [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-PassThru] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -InputObject <CimInstance[]> [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
Remove-VirtualDisk [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-PassThru] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -UniqueId <String[]> [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]



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DESCRIPTION


The Remove-VirtualDisk cmdlet deletes an existing virtual disk and reclaims the used space for use by other virtual disks in the same StoragePool object. This action also
Connect-VirtualDisk
Disconnect-VirtualDisk
Get-VirtualDisk
Hide-VirtualDisk
New-VirtualDisk
Repair-VirtualDisk
Resize-VirtualDisk
Set-VirtualDisk
Show-VirtualDisk

REMARKS

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Examples


EXAMPLE 1

PS C:\>Remove-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "Scratch-Data01"



This example permanently deletes a VirtualDisk object and all child items, such as the Disk, Partition, and Volume objects. Not a recoverable action. This cmdlet is used to
delete the VirtualDisk object, and return the space it used to the storage pool that exposes the VirtualDisk object.