Administrator Guide

Enable or Disable the Disk Indicator Light
The drive bay indicator light identies a drive bay so it can be easily located in an enclosure.
1. Select a Storage Center from the Storage view. (Data Collector connected Storage Manager Client only)
2. Click the Hardware tab.
3. In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the enclosure and select Disks.
4. In the right pane, select the disk, then click Indicator On/O.
Release a Disk
Release a disk before removing it from an enclosure. The disk is fully released after performing a RAID rebalance.
About this task
NOTE: Do not release disks from a disk folder unless the remaining disks have enough free space for the re-striped data.
Steps
1. Select a Storage Center from the Storage view. (Data Collector connected Storage Manager Client only)
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. In the Storage tab navigation pane, expand the Disks node then a disk folder.
4. Click a disk.
5. Click Release Disks. The Release Disk(s) dialog box appears showing the disks to be released.
6. Schedule a RAID rebalance.
• To start a RAID rebalance after releasing the disk, select Perform RAID rebalance immediately.
• To schedule a RAID rebalance, select Schedule RAID rebalance then select a date and time.
7. To skip the RAID rebalance, select I will start RAID rebalance later.
8. Click OK.
Cancel Releasing a Disk
After releasing a disk, the data remains on the disk until the RAID rebalance is complete. Cancel releasing a disk if the RAID rebalance
has not completed and the data is still on the disk. Canceling the release reassigns the disk to the disk folder to which it was
previously assigned.
1. Select a Storage Center from the Storage view. (Data Collector connected Storage Manager Client only)
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. In the Storage tab navigation pane, expand the Disks node.
4. Expand a disk folder, then select a disk marked for release.
5. Click Cancel Release Disk. The Cancel Release Disk(s) dialog box appears.
6. Click OK.
Delete a Disk
Deleting a disk removes that disk object from Dell Storage Manager. Before deleting the disk object, you must release the disk,
moving the data o the disk.
Prerequisites
• The disk failed and it does not have any allocated blocks.
• The disk was removed from the enclosure.
• If the disk was in an enclosure that has been removed, that enclosure object must be deleted rst.
Steps
1. Select a Storage Center from the Storage view. (Data Collector connected Storage Manager Client only)
2. Click the Storage tab.
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