Note: This article is part of the Server Tutorials: "
Raid and Disks" available
here.
The following steps are common in all Operating Systems.
Table of contents:
1. Offline via OMSA
2. Offline via Command Line Interface (CLI)
Offline via OMSA
- Log in to OMSA.
Click Continue to this website if the security certificate warning message appeared.
- Expand Storage on the left tree menu and select Virtual Disks.
- Click the desired virtual disk name from the virtual disks list.
In this step, Virtual Disk0 is selected as an example.
- Select Offline from available tasks menu on the physical disk to delete and click Execute.
- Read the caution message appeared and click Offline.
- Click OK on the message from web page box.
- Check if the selected physical disk status is now offline.
Offline via Command Line Interface(CLI)
OMSA must be installed on your system before you run the following steps.
- Open a Terminal (Linux) or DOS window (Windows).
- Run the command:
omconfig storage pdisk action=offline controller=* pdisk=*
(* will be the number).
Run the command: omreport storage controller
if you check the controller list.
Example: Controller ID=0, desired physical disk ID=0:1:4
omconfig storage pdisk action=offline controller=0 pdisk=0:1:4
Important: It is important to select the good controller.
- "Command successful!" message appears, and the physical disk is now offline.
- Run the command:
omreport storage pdisk controller=* pdisk=*
to check that the physical disk status now shows "Offline" (* will be the number).