D20 Hot-Plug Disk Drives - IBM eserver pSeries 7311 D10 Service Manual

D20 Hot-Plug Disk Drives

Before performing the following procedure, read "Safety Considerations" on page 53.
Note: You do not have to power off the system to remove a hot-plug disk drive. Before
Deconfiguring (Removing) or Configuring a Disk Drive
Use this procedure if you are removing or installing a drive while the system power is
turned on.
Deconfiguring (Removing)
Before removing a disk drive from a volume group, do the following:
1. Log in as root user.
2. Before a disk can be removed from a volume group, all data must be backed up
and the data removed from the disk to be replaced. Use AIX Logical Volume
Manager to perform this task.
Documentation for the AIX operating system is available from the IBM Eserver
pSeries Information Center at
http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/infocenter/base. Select AIX
documentation. The AIX Documentation CD contains the base set of publications
for the operating system, including system-management and end-user
documentation.
3. At the command line, type smitty.
4. Select System Storage Manager (Physical and Logical Storage) and press
Enter.
5. Select Logical Volume Manager and press Enter.
6. Select Volume Groups and press Enter.
7. Select Set Characteristics of a Volume Group and press Enter.
8. Select Remove a Physical Volume from a Volume Group.
9. Press F4 to list the available volume groups, then select the volume group name
and press Enter.
10. Press F4 to select a physical volume, and follow the instructions on the screen to
select the physical volume. Then press Enter.
11. Press F3s, Cancel, to go back to the first menu and select System Storage
Management (Physical and Logical Storage).
12. Select Removable Disk Management.
13. Select Remove a Disk.
14. Select the desired disk from the list on the screen and press Enter.
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you perform these procedures, ensure that the customer has taken appropriate
actions to back up the data for the drive you are removing, and that the drive
has been removed from the configuration. Physically removing a hot-plug disk
drive from the system before it has been removed from the system configuration
can cause unrecoverable data corruption.