The selected drives, with the blue light ON the bottom of the icon, are configured
in the array that contains the logical volume about to be deleted. This is a visual
reminder for your reference.
NOTE: Be careful, if the light on the selected drive is not ON (it looks
yellowish), it is not part of any configuration. Be sure that you are using
selected and configured drives that are associated with the logical volume icon
you selected in the Logical Configuration Panel.
The guidelines below will walk you through the process to delete a logical
volume.
Right-click on the logical volume icon to be deleted to get the drop
menu. (You may also click on the word, Logical Volume, from the
Menu bar to access the drop menu.)
Click on Delete Logical Volume. You will get the following alert
message. Click Yes. If you are not sure of this action, click No to
stop.
Figure 91. Delete Logical Volume, Warning Message
When you click Yes, watch the logical configuration to verify that the selected
logical volume icon is removed from the configuration.
Also, notice in the Physical Elements Panel, that the drives from the logical
volume are no longer selected, but they still show that the blue light is ON. This
means that these drives are still configured to the array and they are available for
a different logical volume arrangement.
Increasing the Size of a Logical Volume
Increasing the size of a logical volume physically expands the addressable space
of a logical volume. By increasing the logical volume size, mapped hosts will
also realize the extended sizes of the logical volumes. There is flexibility when
increasing logical volume space. For example, the size has been increased to 20
GB without using the maximum of 33 GB (see
); however, you can still
return to this logical volume and expand it to the maximum capacity of 33 GB.
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