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 an array name (for example, Array_1). Click the icon corresponding to an 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.

NOTE  You cannot delete operating system drives. If you try to do so, an error message appears.