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Removing a Disk from a Dynamic Disk Group

You can remove a disk from a dynamic disk group if there are no volumes on the disk. If volumes exist, you must delete them before you can revert the disk. Disks shown in Volume Manager to be Unreadable as well as Foreign can be removed, but doing so causes you to lose all existing data on the disk that is removed from the group. If a disk has failed and is marked as Missing, you can also remove it from the dynamic disk group.

To remove a disk from a dynamic disk group, use the Remove Disk from Dynamic Disk Group command.


Note    You can remove the last disk from a dynamic disk group only if the disk is empty, and is not the last disk in the rootdg dynamic disk group.

The steps for removing a disk from a dynamic disk group are as follows:

  1. Right-click on the selected disk or on the Dynamic Disk Group and select Remove Disk from Dynamic Disk Group.
  2. The first screen of the Remove Disk wizard appears. Click Next to continue.
  3. Make sure the proper disk or disks that you want to remove are showing in the right pane of the window and click Next to continue.

The Remove Disk from Dynamic Disk Group procedure removes the disk from VxVM control. If the disk to be removed contains volumes, you must evacuate the disk before you remove the disk.

When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

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