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Configuration > Removing a Physical Drive from a Virtual Disk

Removing a Physical Drive from a Virtual Disk

You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager to remove a physical disk drive from a virtual disk. In order to do this, you must be logged on to the server in All Access mode.

Be sure to back up the data on the virtual disk before you remove a disk from it.

  1. Click the Logical View tab in the left panel.
  2. Right-click on a virtual disk icon and select Advanced Operations >> Reconstruction Wizard.
  3. The Reconstruction Wizard window appears.
  4. Click Remove Drive.
  5. In the top panel, select the disk drives that you want to remove from the virtual disk and click the down-arrow button to remove them.
  6. When you are finished removing disk drives, click Next to continue.
  7. When the next screen appears, select a new RAID level from the drop-down menu, if desired. Review the displayed information for the virtual disk.
  8. Click Finish to accept the new configuration.
  9. A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. To do this, select Group Operations >> Show Progress.

DB09-000202-00  July 2007
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