Change Disk State operation

Use this operation to change the state of a disk in a IBM Storage Scale file system.

About this task

This operation runs the following IBM Storage Scale command:
su - gpfsprod -c 'sudo /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmchdisk <File_System_Name> <State> -F <stanzafile>

For more information on this command, see the Related links.

Procedure

  1. Expand the Administration section of the GPFS_Manager operations.
  2. Expand the Change Disk State node.
  3. In the File System Name field, specify the name of the file system that is associated with the disk.
    You can determine the IBM Storage Scale file system name by running the Get Cluster Status operation.
  4. In the State field, select one of the available radio buttons to specify the new state for the disk in the file system.
  5. In the Network Shared Disk (NSD) Name field, specify the name of the disk.
    You can obtain a list of NSD disk names by running the Get Cluster Status operation.
  6. In the Node(s) field, specify the node or list of nodes (separated by semicolons) on which to change this attribute.
    You can specify up to eight NSD servers. You can obtain a list of NSD server node names by running the Get Cluster Status operation.

    As a best practice, enter IP addresses (required for IPv6 deployments).

  7. Click Submit.
  8. Click Confirm when asked to validate your request.

Results

When you run this operation, a new entry is displayed under the Operation Execution Results list, with the name Change Disk. When completed, the status of the operation changes from Active to Done, and the Return Value column displays a link to a log file with the result of the operation. Verify that there are no errors in this log.