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3.4.7 Delete a volume

A volume object can either be placed in the recycle bin (it can be restored at a later time) or the volume object

can be permanently deleted using the following details.

3.4.7.1 Move to recycle bin

# recycle a volume object

payload = {}

REST = '/StorageCenter/ScVolume/%s/Recycle' %

volList['RestTest_Vol_renamed']['instanceId']

completeURL = '%s%s' % (baseURL, REST if REST[0] != '/' else REST[1:])

json_data = connection.post(completeURL

,data=json.dumps(payload

,ensure_ascii=False).encode('utf-8')

,headers=header

,verify=verify_cert)

stdout = json.loads(json_data.text)

print stdout

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{u'result': True}

3.4.7.2 Remove permanently

# remove a volume object

payload = {}

REST = '/StorageCenter/ScVolume/%s' %

volList['RestTest_Vol_renamed']['instanceId']

completeURL = '%s%s' % (baseURL, REST if REST[0] != '/' else REST[1:])

json_data = connection.delete(completeURL

,headers=header

,verify=verify_cert)

stdout = json.loads(json_data.text)

print stdout

del volList['RestTest_Vol_renamed'] # remove list entry

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{u'result': True}