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Dell Storage Center SCv2000 and SCv2020 Storage System Deployment Guide

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Release the Disks in the Expansion Enclosure

Use the Dell Storage Manager Client to release the disks in an expansion enclosure before removing the expansion enclosure.

About this task

Releasing disks causes all of the data to move off the disks.
  • NOTE: Do not release disks unless the remaining disks have enough free space for the restriped data.

Steps

  1. Use the Dell Storage Manager Client to connect to the Storage Center.
  2. Click the Hardware tab.
  3. In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the enclosure to remove.
  4. Select the Disks node.
  5. Select all of the disks in the expansion enclosure.
  6. Right-click on the selected disks and select Release Disk. The Release Disk dialog box opens.
  7. Select Perform RAID rebalance immediately.
  8. Click OK.
When all of the drives in the expansion enclosure are in the Unassigned disk folder, the expansion enclosure is safe to remove.

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