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Detail to Removing Physical NIC #246

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### Remove a physical NIC

Before removing it, just be sure to remove its associated networks, so it won't cause trouble. Then, shutdown, remove the NIC and finally boot. After the boot, do a `xe pif-forget uuid=<OLD PIF UUID>` to get rid of the object record.
Before removing a physical NIC, ensure that no VMs are using the interface. Shutdown the host, physically remove the NIC and boot.
After boot, the PIF will need to be removed. You can do it this way:
```
xe pif-forget uuid=<PIF UUID>
```
The `<PIF UUID>` can be obtained with either `xe pif-list` or with Xen Orchestra. This command only needs to be ran once on the pool.

## 🛞 SDN controller

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