Delete a Physical Disk

When a physical disk is no longer needed in an Oracle FS System, you can delete it in the Oracle VM Manager. Be sure the volume to be deleted is not being accessed.

Prerequisites:

Oracle FS System login credentials with Administrator 1 privileges.
If the source physical disk has clones, remove the clones before you delete the physical disk.
Note: If you try to delete a source physical disk that has clones, the plug-in will issue an error stating that you must remove these clones before you can delete the source physical disk.

Caution

Deleting a physical disk through the Oracle VM Manager permanently removes all data that reside on that physical disk. Once the disk has been deleted, the data is no longer available.

In the Oracle VM Manager, select the Storage tab.
From the available SAN servers in the navigation tree, select the Oracle FS System upon which the physical disk you want to delete resides.
Select Physical Disks from the Perspective: drop-down list in the toolbar at the top of the content area of the page.
Select the physical disk to be deleted from those listed in the Physical Disks table.
In the toolbar at the top of the content area of the page, click the Delete Physical Disk “X” icon.
In the Delete Confirmation dialog, click OK.
Result:The physical disk no longer appears in the table.
Note: When you delete a physical disk, the Oracle FS System must recondition the storage for that disk before it will be made available for creation of new physical disks (LUNs). This reconditioning may take some time on very large physical disks. Refer to the Oracle Flash Storage System Administrator’s Guide for instructions regarding viewing the Unavailable Storage that is being reconditioned.