Remove disk drives ?

[Tony_Uren]

Scenario  EV 9.0 / Win2K8

Had a mount point for Indexes. Two attached LUNs. Was running low on space.  Attached a new LUN, copied data from both old LUNs, changed drive letter for old mount point, added old index drive letter to new LUN (no longer using mount points for indexes).

This process has worked, new index volume is being utilised.

Went to offline the old LUNs for deletion and EV shutdown.  How can I remove these old LUNs ?

ps I'm am positive I have done this before - just can't seem to find the info on the forum.

Thanks

[Arjun_Shelke]

What was the error when EV shutdown? What if you stop the indexing service and take the LUN offline?

[GabeV]

You updated the index locations in SQL, right? If you stop all the EV services, dismount the LUNs, then offline and after that start the EV services again, do the EV sercices shutdown again?

[Tony_Uren]

Didn't need to modify SQL as I re-used the drive letter, so as far as SQL was concerned it was the same, even though it was a new LUN.

I will try stopping the services first.  This does make sense.

Thanks

[JesusWept3]

EV Probably shut down because it was monitoring the drives and they disconnected, so its similar to the < 10% free space, EV shuts down

You should just be able to follow Gabes steps