This section describes how to delete an elastic virtual switch. You can delete an elastic virtual switch only when all the VPorts of an elastic virtual switch are free. Therefore, VPorts must not be associated with VNICs.
Before You Begin
Ensure that your role has the appropriate rights profile to perform this procedure. See Using Rights Profiles to Perform Network Configuration.
$ evsadm show-evs
You cannot delete an elastic virtual switch if a VPort is in use. A VPort is in use if a VNIC is connected to the VPort. The STATUS field in the evsadm show-evs command output displays whether an elastic virtual switch is busy or idle.
If a VPort is in use, you need to delete the VNIC associated with the VPort as follows:
$ dladm delete-vnic VNIC
$ evsadm delete-evs [-T tenant-name] EVS-switch-name
This command deletes the specified elastic virtual switch and all the VPorts and the IPnet associated with the elastic virtual switch.
The following example shows how to delete the elastic virtual switch ORA.
$ evsadm show-evs EVS TENANT STATUS NVPORTS IPNETS HOST ORA sys-global idle 0 ora_ipnet -- $ evsadm delete-evs ORA $ evsadm show-evs ORA evsadm: failed to show EVS(s): evs not found
The following example shows how to delete the elastic virtual switch EVS1, which is busy.
$ evsadm show-evs EVS1 EVS TENANT STATUS NVPORTS IPNETS HOST EVS1 sys-global busy 1 evs1_ipnet s11-server $ evsadm show-vport EVS1/vport1 NAME TENANT STATUS VNIC HOST EVS1/vport1 sys-global used vnic1 s11-server $ dladm delete-vnic vnic1 $ evsadm show-evs EVS1 EVS TENANT STATUS NVPORTS IPNETS HOST EVS1 sys-global idle 1 evs1_ipnet -- $ evsadm delete-evs EVS1 $ evsadm show-evs EVS1 evsadm: failed to show EVS(s): evs not found