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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
  3. Managing OpenStorage
  4. Managing OpenStorage disk pools
  5. Removing a volume from an OpenStorage disk pool
Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk

Removing a volume from an OpenStorage disk pool

Use the NetBackup nbdevconfig command to remove a volume from a disk pool. The following are the prerequisites:

  • NetBackup image fragments cannot exist on the disk volume.

  • NetBackup jobs cannot be active on the disk volume.

By default, NetBackup automatically decreases disk pool capacity if you remove a disk volume.

To remove a volume from an OpenStorage disk pool

  1. Change the disk volume state to DOWN.

    See Changing OpenStorage disk volume state.

  2. Change the disk pool state to DOWN.

    See Changing OpenStorage disk pool state .

  3. Remove the volume by using the nbdevconfig command. The following is the command syntax:

    nbdevconfig -deletedv -stype server_type -dp disk_pool_name -dv vol_name

    The following is the path to the nbdevconfig command:

    • UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd

    • Windows: install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd

    For the server_type, the storage vendor provides the string that identifies the server type.

  4. Change the disk pool state to UP.

    See Changing OpenStorage disk pool state .

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