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Changing logical volumes to another group, Removing logical volumes, Removing logical volume groups – FUJITSU CentricStor V3.1D User Manual

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Partitioning on the basis of volume groups

Selected system administrator activities

4.1.3.7

Changing logical volumes to another group

The form and detailed information are provided in the

section “Logical Volume Opera-

tions » Change Volume Group” on page 209

.

The following information must be specified:

Specification whether all volumes (“all”) or just a certain number (“range”) of
volumes of the original logical volume group are to be moved to the new group.
If only part of the original group is to be transferred, the VSN of the first logical
volume and the number of affected volumes must also be specified.

Original logical volume group

(“Source Logical Volume Group”)

New logical volume group

(“Target LVG”)

The logical volumes are then assigned to the new logical volume group.

4.1.3.8

Removing logical volumes

Logical volumes should only be removed after being released by the host.

The form and detailed information are provided in the

section “Logical Volume Opera-

tions » Erase Logical Volumes” on page 213

.

The following information must be specified:

the VSN of the first logical volume

the number of logical volumes

The logical volume group need not be specified, since all VSNs within

CentricStor are unique.

The logical volumes are then removed from the CentricStor pool.

4.1.3.9

Removing logical volume groups

Logical volume groups which have been made known to the system with the “Distribute and
Activate” function can be removed from the “

Logical Volume Groups

form (see

page 173

).

However, this is possible only if the following prerequisites are satisfied:

The logical volume group concerned may no longer be linked to a physical volume
group.

The logical volume group may not contain any logical volumes.

The two logical volume groups BASE and TR-LVG cannot be removed.

1. Select the logical volume group to be removed in the list.
2. Click on the “To Be Deleted” button (see

page 175

) and select “YES”.

3. Click on the “OK” button.

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