- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Expanding PowerFlex storage
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage after PowerFlex deployment
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing file storage
- High availability
- Multitenancy
- Overview of configuring NAS servers
- About file system storage
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Modify a snapshot
- Delete a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Clone NAS server and file system
- Clone the file system
- Create a thin clone using a snapshot
- Protecting a block storage environment
- Snapshots
- Create snapshots
- Overwrite volume content from a snapshot
- Set bandwidth and IOPS limits for snapshots
- Lock and unlock snapshots
- Delete snapshots
- Map snapshots
- Unmap snapshots
- Increase the size of a snapshot
- Migrate a snapshot vTree
- Pause snapshot vTree migration
- Roll back snapshot vTree migration
- Set snapshot vTree migration priority
- Snapshot policies
- Remote protection
- Extract and upload certificates
- Journal capacity
- Add a peer system
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDRs
- Replication consistency group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Create a replication consistency group
- Map RCG target volumes to hosts
- Unmap a host from RCG target volumes
- Set the target to inconsistent mode
- Set the target to consistent mode
- Modify the recovery point objective
- Add a replication pair to an RCG
- Pause replication for an RCG
- Resume replication for an RCG
- Create a snapshot of an RCG volume
- Add an RCG snapshot policy
- Perform a failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Stop a failover test
- Freeze an RCG
- Unfreeze an RCG
- Activate an RCG
- Terminate replication in an RCG
- Delete an RCG
- Pause creation of an initial copy
- Resume creation of initial copy
- Set copying priority
- Unpair from RCG
- Snapshots
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Basic tasks
- Deploying a resource group
- Adding an existing resource group
- Updating a resource group with new firmware and software
- Viewing a compliance report
- Entering and exiting service mode
- Replacing a drive
- Replacing NVDIMM node or battery
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Migrating vCLS VMs to shared storage
- Adding components to a resource group
- Resize a volume
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Adding NVMe/TCP storage access
- Replacing the operating system for a node
- Additional resource group management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Preparing a template for a resource group deployment
- Basic tasks
- Additional template management tasks
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Managing resources
- Basic tasks
- Discover a resource
- Viewing resource details
- Update resource inventory
- Viewing a compliance report for a resource
- Updating firmware and software
- Removing resources
- Additional resource management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- User management
- Repositories
- Getting started
- Networking
- Events and alerts
- License management
- Security
- Serviceability
- Software upgrade
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Maintenance for a PowerFlex controller node
- Retrieving logs for the PowerFlex nodes
- Retrieving logs for PowerFlex components
- Retrieving additional PowerFlex logs
- Enabling audit logging
- Managing storage devices using CloudLink
- Understanding NVMe over TCP load balancing
- Managing NAS server configuration
- Migrating to NVMe over TCP on VMware ESXi
Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Administration Guide
Remove SDSs
Remove SDSs and devices gracefully from a system. The removal of some objects in the system can take a long time, because removal may require data to be moved to other storage devices in the system.
About this task
If you plan to replace a device with a device containing less storage capacity, you can configure the device to a smaller capacity than its actual capacity, in preparation for replacement. This will reduce rebuild and rebalance operations in the system later on.
The system has job queues for operations that take a long time to execute. You can view jobs by clicking the Running Storage Jobs icon on the right side of the toolbar. Operations that are waiting in the job queue are shown as Pending. If a job in the queue will take a long time, and you do not want to wait, you can cancel the operation using the Abort button in the Remove command window (if you left it open), or using the Abort entering Protected Maintenance Mode command from the More Actions menu.
CAUTION:The
Remove command deletes the specified objects from the system. Use the
Remove command with caution.
Steps
- On the menu bar, click .
- In the right pane, select the relevant SDS check box and click .
- In the Remove SDS dialog box, click Remove.
- Verify that the operation has finished and was successful, and click Dismiss.
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