Deleting a Logical Drive

You can delete logical drives on a controller to reuse that space for new logical drives.
caution: All data on a logical drive is lost when you delete it. Make sure to back up the data before you delete a logical drive.

Perform the following steps to delete a logical drive.

  1. Navigate to the Controller Dashboard, click an array name (for example, Array_1).
    Click the icon that corresponds to the array to display its contents.
    The logical drives an drives associated with the selected array appear.
  2. Click the logical drive that you want to delete.
  3. Select Actions > Delete.
    A confirmation dialog appears.
  4. Select Confirm and click Yes, Delete to proceed with the delete operation.
    Note: You can delete an operating system or file system logical drive. However, if you try to do so, the following message appears.
    Selected Logical Drive has an OS/FS, are you sure you want to delete it?