Deleting Unused Virtual Disks; Clearing The Leftover Disks - HP StorageWorks 9000 - Virtual Library System User Manual

• Reconstructing — The virtual disk is being reconstructed.
• Verifying — The virtual disk is being verified.
• VDisk Scrubbing — The virtual disk is being scrubbed.

Deleting Unused Virtual Disks

On the Manage Virtual Disks screen, you can delete an unused virtual disk. By default, it lists the
virtual disks in all of the disk arrays. You can narrow the list by using the Select Disk Arrays list and
then selecting Update.
1. Select the virtual disks you want to delete.
To narrow the list of disks displayed, use the Select Disk Array list, then select Update.
2. Select Delete Unused VDisk from the Select Operation list.
3. Select Submit. A warning screen displays.
4. Select Continue. The screen displays the status of the deletion.
NOTE:
You can only delete virtual disks that are currently not in use or that have two or fewer disks.

Clearing the Leftover Disks

The Clear Leftover Disks screen displays details about the disks including the disk array number and
IP address, enclosure number, disk slot number, serial number, disk state, disk revision (firmware
version), and disk drive size in TB.
Each disk drive contains metadata that the system uses to identify the drive's owning virtual disk, if
any. Disks will go into the Leftover state when they are removed and inserted into the same array.
This is caused by the difference in timestamp between the reinserted drive and the timestamp present
with the virtual disk. You must clear the disk's metadata before you can use the leftover disk in a
different virtual disk or as a spare.
The status of the disk is one of the following:
• Available — Disk is available for use in a virtual disk
• Global spare — Disk is available as a global spare
• Leftover — Disk contains metadata but is not part of a virtual disk
• Part of virtual disk — Disk is part of a virtual disk
• Spare assigned to virtual disk — Disk is a spare assigned to a virtual disk
To clear the Leftover disks:
1. Select the disks you want to clear from the list.
To narrow the list of disks in the Leftover state displayed, use the Select Disk Array or Select
Enclosure list, then select Update.
2. Select Submit. A warning screen displays.
3. Select Continue. The screen displays the status of the disk clearing.
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