Administrator Guide

3 In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the enclosure and select Disks.

The Disks view is displayed.

4 In the right pane, click the Disks subtab, then select a disk and click Release Disk.

The Release Disks dialog box opens.

5 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.

6 To skip the RAID rebalance, select I will start RAID rebalance later.

7 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 If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.

2 Click the Hardware tab.

3 In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the enclosure and select Disks.

The Disks view is displayed.

4 In the right pane, click the Disks subtab, then select a disk marked for release and click Cancel Release Disk.

The Cancel Release Disks dialog box opens.

5 Click OK.

Delete a Disk

Deleting a disk removes that disk object from Unisphere. 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 If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.

2 Click the Hardware tab.

3 In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the enclosure and select Disks.

The Disks view is displayed.

4 In the right pane, click the Disks subtab, then select the disk and click Delete.

The Delete dialog box opens.

5 Click OK.