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Managing disk space

You can manage the amount of disk space that is used by Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator by deleting files that are no longer needed

About this task

Procedure

To delete unneeded files, complete one or more of the following procedures.

Device service-data files
  1. From the Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click the Administration (Administration icon) > Service and Support, and then click Service Data tab to display the Device Service Data card.
  2. Select one or more service-data files to be deleted, and click the Delete icon (Delete icon).
Operating system images
  1. From the Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click the Administration (Administration icon) > OS Deployment, and then click OS Management tab to display the OS Images card.
  2. Select one or more OS images to be deleted, and click the Delete icon (Delete icon).
Update payload files

Ensure that the updates are not used in an updates-compliance policy. You can remove an update from a policy from the Apply and Activate card (see Creating and assigning update-compliance policies).

  1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Provisioning (Provisioning icon) > Updates, and then click the Repository Management tab to display the Repository Management card.
  2. Select one or more update packages or files to be deleted.
  3. Click Delete only payload files icon (Delete Full Update Package icon) to delete only the image (payload) file for each selected update. Information about the update (the XML metadata file) remains in the repository, and the download status changes to “Not downloaded.”.
XClarity Orchestrator updates

You can delete orchestrator-server updates that are in the Downloaded state. The Applied Status column in the table indicates the status of the update.

  1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Maintenance (Maintenance icon), and then click the Orchestrator Server Update tab to display the Orchestrator Server Update card.
  2. Select one or more updates to be deleted, and click the Delete icon (Delete icon).

    The Acquired Status column for the deleted updates changes to “Not downloaded.”