Removing an enclosure – Dell Compellent Series 30 User Manual

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Removing an Enclosure

Removing an Enclosure

Note

An enclosure cannot be taken out of a loop or chain if any of the disks contain data.

1 From the Storage Management menu, select Disk > Folder > Create Disk Folder.

Either the system finds unmanaged disks or not:

If there are unmanaged disks, the System Manager selects the unmanaged disk to
be included in the disk folder. Unselect any unmanaged disks. Click Continue. The
system asks if you still want to create a disk folder without disks. Click Continue
without Disks
.

If there are no unmanaged disks, the system informs you and asks if you still want
to create a disk folder. Click Yes.

2 The Name Disk Folder window appears. Enter a temporary name or accept the default.

3 Click Create Now.

4 In the System Tree, select a logical disk folder that contains the disks in the enclosure

you want to remove. Disks are group by RAID level.

5 Click on the Enclosure column head to list disks per enclosure.

6 Select all the disks in the enclosure that you want to remove.

7 From the shortcut menu, select Move Managed Disk.

Figure 301. Select Disk Shortcut Menu

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