– The disk pool contains a base virtual disk or a target virtual disk participating in a virtual disk copy operation with the status of In
Progress.
To delete a disk pool:
1
Select the
Storage & Copy Services
tab.
2
Select one or more disk pools.
3
From the menu bar, select
Storage
>
Disk Pool
>
Delete.
The
Confirm Delete Disk Pool
dialog is displayed.
4
Type
yes
to confirm, and click
OK
.
The
Delete Disk Pool - Progress
dialog is displayed while all the virtual disks in the disk pool are being deleted.
Viewing storage array logical components and
associated physical components
You can view the logical components (virtual disks , disk pools, and disk groups) in a storage array, and then view the physical components
(RAID controller modules, RAID enclosures, physical disks, and expansion enclosures) that are associated with a specific logical component.
1
To view the components, select the
Storage & Copy Services
tab.
The object tree is displayed on the left, and the Properties pane is displayed on the right. The object tree provides a view of the
components in the storage array in a tree structure. The components shown include the disk pools, the disk groups, the virtual disks,
the free capacity nodes, and any unconfigured capacity for the storage array. The Properties pane displays detailed information about
the component that is selected in the object tree.
2
To view the physical components that are associated with a component, perform one of these actions:
•
Right-click a component, and select
View Associated Physical Components
.
•
Select a component, and click
View Associated Physical Components
in the Properties pane.
•
Select a component, and from the menu bar, select
Storage
>
Disk Pool
>
View Associated Physical Components.
The associated physical components are displayed with a blue circle.
Secure disk pools
You can create a secure disk pool from security capable physical disks. The physical disks in a secure disk pool become security enabled.
Read access from and write access to the physical disks is only available through a RAID controller module that is configured with the
correct security key.
CAUTION:
Possible loss of data access – When a disk pool is secured, the only way to remove security is to delete disk pool.
Deleting the disk pool deletes all the data in the virtual disks that comprise the disk pool.
Whenever the power is turned off and turned on again, all the security-enabled physical disks change to Security Locked status. In this
status, the data is inaccessible until the correct security key is provided by a RAID controller module. You can view the Physical Disk
Security status of any disk pool in the storage array from the
Disk Pool Properties
dialog. The following status information is reported:
•
Security Capable
•
Secure
Table 14. Security properties status of disk pool
Security Capable – Yes
Security Capable – No
Secure – Yes
The disk pool is composed of all SED physical disks
and is in Secure status.
Not applicable. Only SED physical disks can be in Secure
status.
Secure – No
The disk pool is composed of all SED physical disks
and is in Non-Secure status.
The disk pool is not entirely composed of SED physical
disks.
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