We removed some disk we no longer need but made an error in that a DG lost (unrecoverable) all its diskes. As this DG is not critical and we found some other small issues we want to remove the complete DG and create a new one.
BUT. As the disks are in a deported state I am unbale to remove the DG. Is there a way around this issue?
This command is for UNIX only. For Windows, you could try the 3 different options below:
Right click on disk and select "Remove disk from Dynamic Disk Group", but I am not sure if this will work on a deported diskgroup
vxdg -f rmdisk diskname
vxdg -g diskgroup -f import (this imports diskgroup even when some disks are missing - you could also try addining -C option id this doesn't work). Then remove diskgroup:
vxdg -g diskgroup destroy (there is a "-f" option if necessary)
Right click on disk and select "Remove disk from Dynamic Disk Group", but I am not sure if this will work on a deported diskgroup. ==> No option"Remove disk from Dynamic Disk Group" available as disks are disconnected.
vxdg -f rmdisk diskname ==> Failed to complete the operation.
vxdg -g diskgroup -f import (this imports diskgroup even when some disks are missing - you could also try addining -C option id this doesn't work). ==> V-76-58645-583: Could not find the cluster dynamic disk group. (even with -C option)
Rescan did the trick. After the rescan eveything disappeared. I was under the inpression that I still had to "uninstall" the DG but obviously I did not have to.
