Detaching and Deleting a Secondary VNIC
Detach and delete a specified secondary VNIC.
You can't delete a Compute instance's primary VNIC. When you terminate a Compute instance, all attached VNICs (primary and secondary) are automatically detached and deleted.
Note
If the VNIC has a private IP that's the target of a route rule, deleting the VNIC causes all traffic to the private IP to be dropped.
If the VNIC has a private IP that's the target of a route rule, deleting the VNIC causes all traffic to the private IP to be dropped.
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For the VNIC you want to delete, select the Actions menu (
), and then select Delete VNIC.
If the secondary VNIC is on a Linux instance: use the oci-network-config utility to update the OS configuration required for secondary VNICs on instances that run Oracle Linux.
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For the VNIC you want to delete, select the Actions menu (
Use the oci iam domain get command and required parameters to detach and delete a specified secondary VNIC:
oci compute instance detach-vnic --compartment-id ocid --vnic-id ocid ... [OPTIONS]For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.
Run the DetachVnic operation to detach and delete a specified secondary VNIC.