Removing Disks Using mrconfig
About this task
CAUTION
The mrconfig
command must be run under the
supervision of HPE support. Suppose one of three disks in a storage pool has failed, and the storage pool has gone offline.
To remove a disk with mrconfig disk remove
:
Procedure
- Ensure that the data on the surviving disks is backed up/replicated.
-
Remove the failed disk from the node's disktab with the
mrconfig disk remove
command. - Physically remove the failed disk.
- Physically attach the replacement disk.
-
Run the
mrconfig disk init
command on the replacement disk and on the other two disks that were in the disk group. -
Run the
mrconfig disk load
command on each of the three disks. -
Use the
mrconfig dg create
command to create a new disk group with the three disks. -
Use the
mrconfig sp make
command to create a storage pool on the new disk group.