How to Delete a VM in SynetoOS 5

Written By Christian Castagna (Administrator)

Updated at October 22nd, 2025

Table of Contents

Via GUI Via CLI

→ Applies to: SynetoOS 5.x

WARNING
The delete operation will delete all data/snapshots present in the datastore and will no longer be recoverable.

Step 1. Login to SynetoOS GUI

Step 2. From Virtualization menu, click on Virtual machines

Step 3. Select the VM you want to delete

Via GUI

Step 1. Make sure to perform the 3 steps listed at the beginning of this article

Step 2. Click on the three dots button (⋮)

Step 3. Click on Delete

Step 1. Make sure to perform the 3 steps listed at the beginning of this article

Step 2. Write down the Volume ID

Step 3. Connect to SynetoOS appliance via SSH as admin

ssh admin@<your_ip_address_or_hostname>

Step 4. Become Super User

sudo su

Step 5. List datastore

zfs list

Step 6. Delete datastore (replace <pool_name> and <volume_id> with the correct information)

zfs destroy -r -f <pool_name>/syn-volumes/<volume_id>

Step 7 (optional). Clean up the GUI after VM removal ("How to Delete a VM with an Unregistered Icon in SynetoOS 5")