Cannot delete LUNs, after disk enclosure was removed

Question

Hi,We encountered an issue with removing LUNs after Customer removed one of the disk enclosures. I think it's normal behaviour in that case, but problem is that he can't connect same enclosure again. Is there a CLI command that allows to forcefully remove 'orphaned' LUNs and all data linked to it (snapshots etc.)? Of course there's no active support for this array, it's VNX5200KR

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Hi,

Thanks for your question. Try the steps in these articles, but they assume the enclosure is there. There wasn't anything that I could find that does eaxctly what you want without the other enclosure. https://dell.to/3yVUIMS and https://dell.to/42vvYsv

Let us know if you have any additional questions.

mmieszkowski · Answer

Hi, thanks for your reply. But as I can see it refers only to file part of the VNX. And I need to remove block part

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Were the last few steps of the first article https://dell.to/3yVUIMS not for removing the block luns? This one might help as well https://dell.to/3z2qFmG

tianchou · Answer

It can not delete lun or pool when the meta LUN broken.  The only way is force delete from the low level command.

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Cannot delete LUNs, after disk enclosure was removed

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