Notes
You can delete the oldest Enhanced FlashCopy image from an Enhanced FlashCopy group repository
logical drive. The definition of an Enhanced FlashCopy image that you delete is removed from the
system. The space occupied by the Enhanced FlashCopy image that you delete from the Enhanced
FlashCopy group repository logical drive is released and made available for reuse within the Enhanced
FlashCopy group.
Any Enhanced FlashCopy logical drives that exist for an Enhanced FlashCopy image migrate to the
Stopped state when the Enhanced FlashCopy image is deleted.
This command will not run when the controller is in Lockdown mode.
Delete Enhanced FlashCopy Logical Drive
This command deletes an Enhanced FlashCopy logical drive and optionally the associated Enhanced
FlashCopy repository members.
Note: You cannot use this command for Enhanced FlashCopy images involved in online VolumeCopy.
Syntax
delete enhancedFlashCopyLogicalDrive ["enhancedFlashCopyLogicalDriveName"]
[deleteRepositoryMembers=(TRUE | FALSE)]
Parameters
Parameter
enhancedFlashCopyLogicalDrive
deleteRepositoryMembers
Delete FlashCopy Logical Drive
This command deletes one or more FlashCopy logical drives or FlashCopy repository logical drives. You
can also use this command to remove schedules for creating FlashCopies .
Attention: Possible damage to the storage subsystem configuration All of the data in the logical drive is
lost as soon as you run this command.
Syntax
delete (logicaldrive [logicaldriveName] |
logicaldrives [logicaldriveName1 ... logicaldriveNameN])
[schedule]
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Description
The name of the Enhanced FlashCopy logical drive that
you want to delete. Enclose the Enhanced FlashCopy
logical drive identifier in double quotation marks (" ")
inside square brackets ([ ]).
The parameter to save or delete the repository members.
To save the repository members, set this parameter to
FALSE. To delete the repository members, set this
parameter to TRUE. The default value is TRUE. If you do
not use this parameter the repository members are
automatically deleted.
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