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Performing Drive Actions, 2.1 Downing a Drive
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4.2 Performing Drive Actions When you select a drive in the Main Display, you can use the Drive Actions panel to perform the following activities: Down a drive. See section 4.2.1. Reserve spare drives. See section 4.2.2. Show advanced extents in the Extents tab. See section 4.3.3. 4.2.1 Downing a Drive The xStack Storage Management Center provides a Down Drive feature that lets you remove a drive from the system in an orderly way. Using this feature, you can, for example, replace a smaller drive with a larger drive. The Down Drive operation requires all space used on the selected drive to be relocated onto different drives. The Down Drive feature handles this requirement by performing a reconfigure task on every volume that uses space on the drive. This operation is conducted for any type of volume, including redundant and non-redundant organizations. To down a drive: 1. In the Physical Storage View, select a drive in the Main Display. 2. Perform one of the following steps: - On the Storage menu, click Down Drive. - Click Down Drive in the Drive Actions panel. - Press the right mouse button and click Down Drive on the shortcut menu. Any of these steps displays the message inFigure 4-2. Figure 4-2. Down Drive Started Message 3. Click OK in the box to remove the message. If you down a drive, you can use the Schedule tab in the System Administration View to view, suspend, or delete this action (see section 5.2.2). xStack Storage Management Center Software User's Guide 63