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Evacuating a Disk

This feature is similar to disk replacement, but it involves moving the contents of the volumes on one dynamic disk to another dynamic disk. If a disk begins to fail, you can attempt to protect/preserve the volumes on that disk by evacuating the disk. You can also evacuate a disk if you plan to remove the disk or use the disk elsewhere. The other dynamic disk does not have to be empty. The active redundant volumes on the replacement disk will be synchoronized automatically.

To Evacuate a disk:

  1. Right click on the disk you wish to evacuate.
  2. Select Evacuate Disk.
  3. The Evacuate Disk dialog will appear. Select either “Auto Assign destinations disks” or “Manually assign destination disks”.
    1. If you chose “Manually assign destination disks” add the destination disks by clicking on the disk and clicking the Add button.
      • Remove disks from the selected destination disks by clicking on the disk and clicking the Remove button.
  4. Click the OK button to Evacuate the disk.
  5. When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

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