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F.7 Deleting a Hardware RAID Volume


F.7 Deleting a Hardware RAID Volume
Use the sas2ircu deletevolume command to delete a hardware RAID volume from the system.
The following example deletes the RAID volume with volume ID:285 on the SPARC M10.
root# ./sas2ircu 0 deletevolume 285
LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
Version 17.00.00.00 (2013.07.19)
Copyright (c) 2009-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.

You are about to delete an existing RAID Volume on a controller. This command
will delete the specified RAID volume and associated HotSpare drive(s).

WARNING: Proceeding with this operation may cause data loss or data
corruption. Are you sure you want to proceed (YES/NO)? YES

WARNING: This is your last chance to abort this operation. Do you wish
to abort (YES/NO)? NO
Please wait, may take up to a minute...
SAS2IRCU: Volume deleted successfully.
SAS2IRCU: Command DELETEVOLUME Completed Successfully.
SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.
After deleting a hardware RAID volume, check the hardware RAID volume and disk drive items below by executing the sas2ircu display command.
(1) IR Volume information

(1-1) If the RAID volume with volume ID:285 is deleted, and only volume ID:286 information exists

(2) Physical device information

(2-1) (2-2) (2-3) If the "State" of the disk drives of disk slots 2, 3, and 4, which were incorporated as the RAID volume with deleted volume ID:285, is "Ready (RDY)"
  1. Execution results of the sas2ircu display command (partial extract)
root# ./sas2ircu 0 display
------------------------------------------------------------------------

IR Volume information <-- (1)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

IR volume 1 <-- (1-1)
Volume ID : 286
Volume Name : RAID1-SYS
Status of volume : Okay (OKY)
Volume wwid : 0aa6d102f1bf517a
RAID level : RAID1
Size (in MB) : 571250
Physical hard disks :
PHY[0] Enclosure#/Slot# : 2:0
PHY[1] Enclosure#/Slot# : 2:1
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Physical device information <-- (2)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Device is a Hard disk <-- (2-1)
Enclosure # : 2
Slot # : 2
SAS Address : 5000039-4-281a-8ad2
State : Ready (RDY)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 572325/1172123567
Manufacturer : TOSHIBA
Model Number : MBF2600RC
Firmware Revision : 3706
Serial No : EA25PC7007G7
GUID : 50000394281a8ad0
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
Device is a Hard disk <-- (2-2)
Enclosure # : 2
Slot # : 3
SAS Address : 5000039-4-281b-5dc2
State : Ready (RDY)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 572325/1172123567
Manufacturer : TOSHIBA
Model Number : MBF2600RC
Firmware Revision : 3706
Serial No : EA25PC7007T3
GUID : 50000394281b5dc0
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
Device is a Hard disk <-- (2-3)
Enclosure # : 2
Slot # : 4
SAS Address : 5000039-4-281b-58b2
State : Ready (RDY)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 572325/1172123567
Manufacturer : TOSHIBA
Model Number : MBF2600RC
Firmware Revision : 3706
Serial No : EA25PC7007RA
GUID : 50000394281b58b0
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD