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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