Uninstall Portworx installed using AWS Marketplace

Uninstall Portworx

Perform the following steps to uninstall Portworx:

1. Stop applications and clean up volumes before deleting the StorageCluster to prevent PVs from getting permanently stuck with CSI finalizers:

   • Stop all applications using Portworx volumes.
   • Delete the Portworx PVCs.
   • Wait until all Delete-reclaim-policy PVs and their VolumeAttachments are fully removed from the cluster.
   warning

   Do not proceed to the next step while volume cleanup is still in progress. Setting ignoreVolumes: true in the delete strategy bypasses this protection — use it only when you intentionally accept the risk that PV cleanup may not complete. If PVs are already stuck in Released state with CSI finalizers, contact Portworx Support.

2. Edit the storage cluster:

   kubectl -n <namespace> edit storagecluster <yourclustername>

3. Add the following lines to your YAML spec section:

note

• If you are running Portworx version 3.5.0 or later on vSphere, AWS, GKE, and Azure platforms with Operator version 25.5.0 or later, you can also set the deleteStrategy parameter to UninstallAndDelete. Delete operation permanently removes all data from your disks, including Portworx metadata, and deletes the cloud drive.
• If you're running KubeVirt virtual machines (VMs), and your default storage class is set to a Portworx storage class, you must set spec.deleteStrategy.ignoreVolumes to true when uninstalling Portworx using the UninstallAndWipe or UninstallAndDelete strategy. Otherwise, the uninstall process fails. This is because KubeVirt creates boot sources as PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs) using the default storage class, which might be a Portworx storage class. In general, you can set ignoreVolumes to true if you are running KubeVirt VMs.
  If the uninstall fails, check the StorageCluster conditions for more details.

deleteStrategy:
  type: UninstallAndWipe

4. Save the spec and exit.

5. Delete the storagecluster:

   kubectl -n <namespace> delete storagecluster <yourclustername>

6. Once all the Portworx-related pods are gone, uninstall or delete the my-release deployment:

   helm uninstall my-release

   This command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.