I am challenged with Deleting a VMAX3 lun VIA Unisphere GUI. There is no UNBIND from Pool option and i cant delete thin luns with alocated tracks. The luns also not allocated to a Front End port.
You will need to free any allocated tracks on the ydev before you can delete it. There is a symcli command for symdev free -all or in unishpere on the designated volume there should be a reclaim action as part of the options. Once all tracks are freed then you will be able to delete it.
VMAX3 has this new requirement sunce there is no more binding to pools with SRPs in place on the new array.
On VMAX3 you must run a "free all" to de-allocate all extents:
1. Select the storage system.
2. Select Storage > Volumes.
3. Locate the volumes using the volumes filter.
4. Select one or more volumes, click more >>
5. To free all allocations associated with the volumes, regardless of whether the data is written, select Free all allocations (written and unwritten).
There is no unbind on VMAX3. The only prerequsites to deletion are to unmap the device from all ports and to free all allocated tracks. If you have performed these actions, I would suggest running a rediscover in Unisphere to force it to re-sync it's local database with the array. If that doesn't work then I would suggest opening an SR with Dell EMC support.
THanks for the reply dynamox..... but while deleting large luns i hvae seen that "symcfg -sid xxxx list -tdev -devs abcd" shows zero tracks allocated but still while deleting the tdev with symconfigure it says that tracks are still allocated....
SO is there any other way to find that all tracks have been dellocated from tdev and all other backgroud tasks have been completed.....?
THanks for the reply dynamox..... but while deleting large luns i hvae seen that "symcfg -sid xxxx list -tdev -devs abcd" shows zero tracks allocated but still while deleting the tdev with symconfigure it says that tracks are still allocated....
SO is there any other way to find that all tracks have been dellocated from tdev and all other backgroud tasks have been completed.....?
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Posted June 19th, 2015 07:00
Thanks Keith