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Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Release a Disk

Release a disk before removing it from an enclosure. The disk is fully released after performing a RAID rebalance.

About this task

NOTE:Do not release disks from a disk folder unless the remaining disks have enough free space for the re-striped data.

Steps

  1. If the Dell Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
  2. Click the Hardware tab.
  3. In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand the enclosure and select Disks.
    The Disks view is displayed.
  4. In the right pane, click the Disks subtab, then select a disk and click Release Disk.
    The Release Disks dialog box opens.
  5. Schedule a RAID rebalance.
    • To start a RAID rebalance after releasing the disk, select Perform RAID rebalance immediately.
    • To schedule a RAID rebalance, select Schedule RAID rebalance then select a date and time.
  6. To skip the RAID rebalance, select I will start RAID rebalance later.
  7. Click OK.

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