Deleting a copy from a volume

You can use the command rmvolumecopy or the management GUI to delete a copy from a volume.

Before you begin

The rmvolumecopy command deletes a copy from a volume. You cannot use this command to delete the last active copy of a volume. To delete a copy from a HyperSwap® volume, which is part of a consistency group, the volume must be first removed from that consistency group before you remove the last copy from a site. In the management GUI, select Volumes, right-click the volume copy, and select Delete this Copy.

Procedure

  1. Enter the following command to delete a copy from a mirrored volume:
     rmvolumecopy -copy copy_id volume_name
    Where copy_id is the ID of the copy to be deleted and volume_name is the name of volume from which the copy is to be deleted.
  2. Issue this command to delete a copy from a HyperSwap or a stretched volume:
    rmvolumecopy -site site_name volume_name
    Where site_name is the site where the copy is located and volume_name is the name of volume from which the copy is to be deleted.
  3. Issue this command if more than one copy of a HyperSwap volume exists on a site to uniquely identify the copy to be removed.
    rmvolumecopy -pool pool_name -copy copy_id volume_name
    Where pool_name is the name of a storage pool, copy_id is the ID of the copy to be deleted, and volume_name is the name of volume from which the copy is to be deleted.