Managing Physical Drives : Making a Drive Offline

Making a Drive Offline

Perform the following steps to make a drive offline.

ATTENTION  After you perform this procedure, all of the data on the drive will be lost.

1.

Navigate to the Controller dashboard, and click a drive group name (for example, DG_1). Click the icon corresponding to a drive group to display its contents.

The virtual drives and physical drives associated with the selected drive group appear.

2.

Click the Physical Drive tab, and select a drive that you want to make offline.

3.

Select Actions > Make Drive Offline.

The drive status changes to Offline.