Managing Plexes

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In the Manage Plexes window you can perform the following procedures:

Making a plex on-line or off-line:

To make a plexon-line or take a volume off-line, complete the following steps.

  1. Select the plex you want to make on-line or take off-line.

  2. Click Online or Offline, depending on the selected plex status.

  3. Click OK at the prompt to continue with the process or Cancel to cancel the process.

If you clicked OK, a message is displayed similar to the following:

Plex <plexname> is now online|offline.

  1. Click Back to return to the Manage Plexes window.

Destroying a volume:

This option enables you to destroy a specific volume. The disks originally in the volume become spare disks for the filer.

Note: A volume must be off-line to destroy it. You can either take the volume off-line or click Destroy, in which case a dialog box is displayed asking whether you want to take the volume off-line and then destroy it.

To destroy a volume, complete the following steps.

  1. Click the Destroy button for the volume you want to destroy.

    If the volume is on-line, a dialog box is displayed asking whether you want to take the volume off-line and then destroy it.

    Click OK to take the volume off-line and destroy it.

  2. Click OK at the prompt to destroy the volume. A message stating that the volume has been destroyed is displayed.

  3. Click Back to return to the Manage Volumes window.

Splitting a mirrored volume:

This option enables you to remove the mirrored data relationship between the two plexes and creates two independent unmirrored volumes. After splitting, the new volume is in a restricted state and the original volume stays in an on-line state.  

To split a mirrored volume, complete the following steps.

  1. Click the Split icon for the volume you want to split.

    Result:     The Split Volume window displays.

  2. Select the plex that you want to split from the Plex to Split list.

  3. Enter the name of the new volume that will result after the plex has been split in the New Volume Name box.

    You must use the following naming conventions for volume names:

  4. Begin with either a letter or an underscore ( _ )

  5. Contain only letter, digits, and underscores

  6. Contain no more than 249 characters

  1. Click Split.