Managing Logical Drives : Deleting a Logical Drive

Deleting a Logical Drive

You can delete logical drives on a controller to reuse that space for new logical drives.

CAUTION  All data on a logical drive is lost when you delete it. Make sure to back up the data before you delete a logical drive.

Perform the following steps to delete a logical drive.

1.

Navigate to the Controller dashboard, click a array name (for example, Array_1). Click the icon corresponding to a array to display its contents.

The logical drives an drives associated with the selected array appear.

2.

Click the logical drive that you want to delete.

3.

Select Actions > Delete.

A confirmation dialog appears.

4.

Select Confirm and click Yes, Delete to proceed with the delete operation.

A message appears confirming that the logical drive is deleted successfully.

Operating system drives cannot be deleted. If you try to do so, an error message appears.