Deleting a Vault

You can delete unwanted vaults to reduce storage space usage and costs.

Once you delete a vault, all backups stored in the vault will be deleted.

Only pay-per-use vaults can be deleted. Yearly/monthly vaults need to be unsubscribed by following instructions in How Do I Unsubscribe from a Vault?

Prerequisites

There is at least one vault.
The vault is in the Available or Error state.
To delete a hybrid cloud backup vault, ensure that corresponding backups have been deleted from both on premises and the cloud.

Procedure

Log in to the CBR console.
1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
3. Click and choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery. Select a backup type from the left navigation pane.
Find the target vault and choose More > Delete in the Operation column. See Figure 1. All backups stored in the vault will be deleted once you delete a vault.

Figure 1 Deleting a vault
Click Yes.

Unsubscribing from a Vault (Yearly/Monthly)

If you no longer need a vault billed in yearly/monthly mode to store backups, you can unsubscribe from the vault in either of the following methods. For details about the unsubscription rules, see Unsubscription Rules.

Method 1

Log in to the CBR console.
Click the Vaults tab and locate the target vault. Click More > Unsubscribe in the Operation column.
Complete the unsubscription operations as prompted.

Method 2

Log in to the CBR console.
Click Billing in the top navigation bar to go to the Billing Center page.
In the left navigation pane, choose Orders > Unsubscriptions to view the yearly/monthly vaults you purchased.
Select an unwanted vault and click Unsubscribe. See Figure 2.

Figure 2 Unsubscribing from a resource package