Removing a disk from the DPM storage pool involves three tasks:

After you remove the disk from the storage pool, you can add the members back to their protection groups if you want to continue to protect them. If you add the members back before you remove the disk, DPM may allocate space on the disk that you want to remove.

To identify protection group members

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar, and then click the Disks tab.

  2. Select the disk that you want to remove.

  3. In the Details pane, note the affected protection group members in the Protected data sources on this disk area.

To remove protection of group members

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Protection on the navigation bar.

  2. In the display pane, select the protection group member that you want to remove from protection.

    Note
    You can select multiple members and remove them at the same time.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Stop protection of member. Verify that you want to remove the member displayed in the Remove from Protection Group dialog box. If you decide not to remove the member, click Cancel at the bottom of the dialog box.

    Note
    Removing protection of group members triggers a consistency check.

To remove a disk from the storage pool

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar, and then click Disks.

  2. Select the disk that you want to remove.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Remove. The disk is removed from the storage pool.

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