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6 How to reclaim virtual identities deployed by OME
Example use case – A production server with a specific workload needs retired, and you wish to reclaim
all the virtual identities so OME can reuse these later.
To accomplish this use case you must perform the following steps:
Prerequisites:
1. The source device must have been deployed from OME from a compute pool using virtual IO.
Steps:
1. Complete the reclaim identities wizard to begin the reclaim process.
2. Verify the task succeeded in the task execution history.
Note: It is possible to reclaim the identities for re-use in OME whether or not the device is still visible in
OME. However, if the device was already deleted from OME, the reclaim operation will not be able to
physically remove the identities from the device, and if it were to be reconnected to the network in that
case, it could result in network conflicts if the identities have been re-used.
The wizard will not be accessible if there are no deployed identities to reclaim.
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