Administrator Guide

Force Delete a Live Volume
Force Delete is an option for Live Volumes in a fractured state or if Storage Manager can view only one side of the Live Volume because
the other side is down. A Live Volume is fractured if both secondary and primary Live Volumes are designated as primary or if Storage
Manager can communicate with only the primary Live Volume.
Prerequisite
Both Live Volumes are inactive or Storage Manager is managing only one of the Storage Centers.
About this task
The following scenarios allow force delete.
Live Volume to
Delete
Failed
Over
Active Live
Volume
Visible to Storage Manager
Primary No Primary Primary only
Primary Yes Secondary Primary and secondary
Secondary No Primary Secondary only
Secondary Yes Secondary Secondary only
Steps
1 Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2 Click the Live Volumes tab then select a Live Volume.
3 Click Force Delete.
The Force Delete dialog box appears.
4 Select the Storage Center that will retain the volume device ID.
NOTE
: Only managed Storage Centers can be selected.
NOTE: If a Storage Center is selected to retain the volume device ID, the QoS setting is also retainedl. The Storage Centers
not selected to retain the volume device ID will have the QoS setting modied to the system defaults.
5 Click Next.
A conrmation page appears.
6 Click Next.
A warning page appears if Storage Manager is managing only one of the Storage Centers.
7 Click Finish.
The Results Summary page appears.
8 Click OK.
Manually Bring Primary Live Volume Online
After a failure, the primary Live Volume may be oine preventing the Live Volume relationship to be restored. In this case, manually bring
the primary Live Volume online to activate the Live Volume and restore the Live Volume relationship with the secondary Live Volume. If
both Live Volumes are down after a failover, Bring Primary Online selects the Live Volume to activate.
Prerequisites
• If visible to the Data Collector, the primary Live Volume must be down.
• If visible to the Data Collector, the secondary Live Volume must be down.
Steps
1 Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2 Click the Live Volumes tab then select a Live Volume.
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Storage Center Replications and Live Volumes