Restoring Blocked Ldevs In A Parity Group; Editing An Ldev Name; Deleting An Ldev (Converting To Free Space) - HP XP7 User Manual

5. Note the settings in the Confirm window and enter a unique Task Name or accept the default
and click Apply.
If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.

Restoring blocked LDEVs in a parity group

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
Use this procedure to restore LDEVs in a parity group from any of these tabs.
Parity Groups tab when you select Parity Groups from the Storage Systems tree of the Remote
Web Console main window.
Parity Groups tab when you select a parity group from Parity Groups in the Storage Systems
tree.
1. In the Storage Systems tree, select the resource of the tab you want to view.
2. If Blocked appears in the LDEV Status column, use the following steps to restore a blocked
LDEV.
If Blocked does not appear in the column, skip the remaining steps.
3. Select the parity group.
You can select multiple parity groups that are listed together or separately.
4. Open the Restore LDEVs window in one of two ways.
Click More Actions > Restore LDEVs.
From the Actions menu, select Logical Device > Restore LDEVs.
5. Note the settings in the Confirm window and enter a unique Task Name or accept the default
and click Apply.
If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.

Editing an LDEV name

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
Use this procedure to edit the name of a registered internal volume.
1. Select the LDEV to be edited.
2. Click Edit LDEVs.
3. In Edit LDEVs window, edit LDEV Name.
4. Click Finish.
5. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings, in Task Name type a unique name for this task
or accept the default, then click Apply.
If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.

Deleting an LDEV (converting to free space)

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.
You can convert one or more of the LDEVs on a selected parity group into free space by deleting
the LDEVs. That free space can be used to either create one or more variable-sized volumes (CVs)
using the Create LDEVs function, or left as free space for future use.
WARNING!
56 Configuring custom-sized provisioning
Deleting LDEVs will erase your data. Back up your data before deleting LDEVs.