Delete A Storage Pool Stuck In Read Only Mode

This blog post is going to be a small one.

Azure Stack Development Kit has just been released and I thought it was about time I got it running on one of my Hyper-V servers. Before I was able to, I ran into an issue with the storage. I had repurposed some disks from an old server that had a storage pool.

I tried to delete the old storage pool on this new server but came up the below message.

To get around this error I jumped into an elevated PowerShell window and ran the following command.

The friendly name has to be changed to the name of your storage pool.

This command basically just takes the storage pool out of read only mode.

Now to delete it. As we are in PowerShell it’s easily done by using the following command.

The friendly name has to be changed to the name of your storage pool.

And that’s it. You are now able to use the disks as required. I hope you found this article helpful and questions please leave a comment.