Delete a Performance Policy

NOTE: Only performance policies that are not currently associated with a volume can be deleted.
  1. (Optional) View a list of the performance policies, and identify the one to be deleted.
    perfpolicy --list
  2. Delete the performance policy.
    perfpolicy --delete name [--force]
    NOTE: Use the --force option only if you must delete a performance policy associated with a volume or folder.

Deleting the performance policy named 64kBlocksize:

$ perfpolicy --list
----------------------------------+----------+--------+-----+------------
Performance Policy                 Block Size Compress Cache Cache Policy
Name                               (bytes)
----------------------------------+----------+--------+-----+------------
64kBlocksize                            65536 Yes      Yes   aggressive
default                                  4096 Yes      Yes   normal
Exchange 2003 data store                 4096 Yes      Yes   normal
Exchange 2007 data store                 8192 Yes      Yes   normal
Exchange 2010 data store                32768 Yes      Yes   normal
Exchange log                            16384 Yes      No    normal
Hyper-V 2012 VDI Storage                 4096 Yes      Yes   normal
Hyper-V 2012 VM Storage                  4096 Yes      Yes   normal
Hyper-V CSV                              4096 Yes      Yes   normal
Oracle OLTP                              8192 Yes      Yes   normal
Other                                    4096 Yes      Yes   normal
SharePoint                               8192 Yes      Yes   normal
SQL Server                               8192 Yes      Yes   normal
SQL Server 2012                          8192 Yes      Yes   normal
SQL Server Logs                          4096 Yes      No    normal
VMware ESX                               4096 Yes      Yes   normal
VMware ESX 5                             4096 Yes      Yes   normal
VMware VDI                               4096 Yes      Yes   normal
vSphere Datastore for Exchange           4096 Yes      Yes   normal
vSphere Datastore for SQL Server         4096 Yes      Yes   normal
VVol Operating System                    4096 Yes      Yes   normal
VVol VDI                                 4096 Yes      Yes   normal
Windows File Server                      4096 Yes      Yes   normal
$ perfpolicy --delete 64kBlocksize