Deleting a Unit
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5
In the Unit Maintenance section of the Maintenance page, select the unit
you want to remove and click
Delete Unit
.
6
When a message asks you to confirm, click
OK
.
Configuration information associating the drives with the unit is deleted,
and the individual drives appear in the Available Drives list (Figure 58).
You can now use them as part of another unit, or designate them as
Spares, for use in a rebuild.
Figure 58. Unit Successfully Deleted through 3DM
Deleting a Unit through 3BM
In 3BM, the command for deleting a unit is on the main 3BM screen.
To delete a unit through 3BM
1
At the main 3BM screen, select the unit in the list of Exportable Units by
highlighting it and pressing
Enter
or
Space
.
An asterisk appears in the left-most column to indicate that it is selected.
2
Tab
to the
Delete Unit
button and press
Enter
.
Note:
If you want to delete an incomplete drive or unusable unit, or a
drive that appears with a message such as “Unsupported DCB,”
select it in a similar manner and then select
Delete Unit
, even
though it appears in the list
Incomplete Drives and Others
.
Warning:
Any data on the unit will be lost once the unit is deleted.
Backup any data that you want to keep.
