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August 5th, 2014 08:00
Remove Drives from MD3000i
We have a MD3000i with a 1000 enclosure in a SAN for 3 ESXi server cluster. We populated the last 6 slots with drives from an authorized Dell reseller and 2 drives show up as bypassed and the other 4 show up as Loss of path redundancy.
After much back and forth with the provider, they have decided we should send these disks back and they will get 6 new disks.
My question is, I have not assigned any of these drives to a DG or VD (even though the loss of redundancy drives were visible to the management console). Can I safely remove the six drives (3 in the MD3000i and 3 in the MD1000) without powering down the ESXi servers and SAN? Or is there some process in the MDSM or MDCLI that needs to be done first.
THanks
Don
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Posted August 5th, 2014 12:00
Thanks Sam, what I had thought I saw from docs and other messages but wanted to make sure.
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Posted August 5th, 2014 10:00
Hello Don,
Since the drives are not part of any DG or VD then yes you can just remove the drives from your MD3000 & MD1000 without powering down the san or any VM’s. Now you may get a few errors that states that drives have failed or been removed but once you look at MDSM you can see that the drives should be the ones that you are removing.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.