Deleting virtual disks, Deleting disk groups – Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H800 User Manual

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Configuring and Managing RAID

Deleting Virtual Disks

NOTE:

You cannot delete a virtual disk during an initialization.

NOTE:

Warning messages appear stating the effect of deleting a virtual disk.

Click OK twice to complete the virtual disk deletion.

To delete virtual disks, perform the following steps in the BIOS

Configuration Utility:

1 Press <Ctrl><N> to access the VD Mgmt screen.
2 Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the Virtual Disks heading.
3 Press <F2>.

The action menu is displayed.

4 Select Delete VD and press <Enter>.
5 If there are multiple virtual disks in a Disk Group, select Total Free

Capacity for the Disk Group in the VD Mgmt screen.
The total amount of free space available in the

Disk Group is displayed.

Deleting Disk Groups

You can delete disk groups using the BIOS Configuration Utility. When you

delete a disk group, the utility also removes the virtual disks in that disk

group.
To delete disk groups, perform the following steps in the BIOS

Configuration Utility:

1 Press <Ctrl><N> to access the VD Mgmt screen.
2 Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the Virtual Disks heading.
3 Press <F2>.

The action menu is displayed.

4 Select Delete Disk Group and press <Enter>.

The disk group is deleted.

When you delete a disk group, the remaining disk groups with higher

numbers are automatically renumbered. For example, if you delete disk

group #2, then disk group #3 is automatically renumbered as disk group #2.

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