Disconnecting a Disk

This procedure disconnects a Volume Manager disk from its underlying physical disk. You can disconnect a disk in preparation for the replacement of a physical disk. After disconnecting a disk, you can use the Replace Disk task to reconnect the disk (see “Replacing a Disk”).

To disconnect a disk

1. Select the disk to be disconnected.

2. Choose Hosts > Disconnect Disk (Selected menu) or Disk Disconnect (Command Launcher).

3. Complete the Disconnect Disk dialog box as follows:

   Disk:

   If the correct disk name is not already displayed in this field, type the disk's name or click Browse to select the disk.

   When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

   Notes:
   This task requires a disk name. Disconnecting a disk that contains volumes can result in loss of data or redundancy.