Removing a storage system

You can remove a storage system from the Copy Services Manager configuration.

About this task

Prerequisites: You must have Administrator privileges to remove a storage system.

Removing a storage system removes all volumes on that storage system from management server control. All copy sets with a volume on the removed storage system are removed from their respective sessions, making the target volume unrecoverable. All connections to the removed storage system are removed, and any storage systems sharing these connections are also removed.

Perform these steps to remove a storage system:

Procedure

In the menu bar, click Storage > Storage Systems.
On the Storage Systems page, select the storage system that you want to remove.

Important: All connections to this storage system will be removed, all volumes on the storage system will be removed from management server control, and all copy sets that have a volume on this storage system will be removed from their respective sessions, leaving the target volume unrecoverable. Any storage systems sharing these connections will be removed as well.
From the Select Action list, select Remove Storage System.
Click Yes to remove the storage system.

What to do next

For high availability (HA) users: If you have a standby server, removing a storage system from the active server does not automatically remove it from the standby. If you want to remove the storage system from the standby server, you can resync the standby server with the following steps:

On the Overview panel of the Copy Services Manager GUI, click Management Servers > Select Action > Remove Standby.
Then, on the same panel, click Select Action > Define Standby. Enter the associated Domain/IP, Username, and Password for the standby server, and click OK. The standby server is then resynchronized.