Deployment Guide

Removing an Expansion Enclosure from a Chain
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To remove an expansion enclosure, you disconnect the expansion enclosure from one side of the chain at a time.
About this task
During this process, one side of the chain is disconnected. The Storage Center directs all I/O to the other side of the chain, which remains
connected.
CAUTION: Make sure that your data is backed up before removing an expansion enclosure.
Before physically removing an expansion enclosure, make sure that none of the drives in the expansion enclosure are managed by the
Storage Center software.
Steps
1. Use Storage Manager to connect to the Storage Center.
2. Use Storage Manager to release the drives in the expansion enclosure.
3. Select the expansion enclosure to remove and click Remove Enclosure. The Remove Enclosure wizard starts.
4. Confirm the details of your current installation and click Next to validate the cabling.
5. Locate the expansion enclosure in the rack. Click Next.
6. Disconnect the A-side chain.
a) Disconnect the A-side cables that connect the expansion enclosure to the storage system. Click Next.
b) Reconnect the A-side cables to exclude the expansion enclosure from the chain. Click Next to validate the cabling.
7. Disconnect the B-side chain.
a) Disconnect the B-side cables that connect the expansion enclosure to the storage system. Click Next.
b) Reconnect the B-side cables to exclude the expansion enclosure from the chain. Click Next to validate the cabling.
8. Click Finish.
Release the Drives in the Expansion Enclosure
Release the drives in an expansion enclosure before removing the expansion enclosure.
About this task
Because releasing drives causes all of the data to move off the drives, this procedure might take some time.
NOTE:
Do not release drives unless the remaining drives have enough free space for the restriped data.
Steps
1. Use Storage Manager to connect to the Storage Center.
2. Click the Hardware tab.
3. In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the expansion enclosure to remove.
4. Select the Disks node.
5. Select all of the drives in the expansion enclosure.
6. Right-click on the selected drives and select Release Disk. The Release Disk dialog box opens.
7. Select Perform RAID rebalance immediately.
8. Click OK.
Results
When all of the drives in the expansion enclosure are in the Unassigned drive folder, the expansion enclosure is safe to remove.
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Adding or Removing Expansion Enclosures