HP StorageWorks 6100 - Enterprise Virtual Array User Manual page 117

5. Check the following conditions.
CAUTION:
The following conditions must all have the indicated states before the disk is removed.
• Requested usage — Ungrouped. See
• Actual usage — Ungrouped. See
If all the above conditions are met, continue with
continue with the following step.
NOTE:
If the above conditions are not met after attempting to ungroup the disk, contact your
HP-authorized service representative for assistance.
6.
For an impending failure, it will be necessary to ungroup the disk as follows before it can be
removed.
NOTE:
You should only ungroup one disk at a time. Before you ungroup a disk, verify that
leveling is not in progress and that sufficient free space is available. After you ungroup
the disk, verify the status of the disk group before continuing. For more information about
leveling and free space, see the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array best practices
document .
a. Click Ungroup.
b. Click Ungroup in background.
CAUTION:
When selecting Ungroup in background, a dialog is displayed indicating the
Operation succeeded. This indicates that the ungroup operation has been initiated.
You can monitor the progress of the ungroup on the Disk Drive Properties page.
c. Click the Disk Drive tab and monitor the ungroup progress. When the ungroup is complete,
continue with the next step.
• If you are running XCS 6.000 or later, monitor the Migration progress field
52).
• If you are running an earlier version of XCS or any version of VCS, monitor the Re-
quested usage field and the Actual usage field
will indicate Ungrouped when the process is complete.
NOTE:
The ungrouping process may take up to several hours to complete. The time depends
on the capacity of the disk and the level of storage system activity.
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Figure 53.
Figure 53.
Step 7. If the disk needs to be ungrouped,
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53). The status of both fields
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