Oct 5, 2015 Posted by newlife007 on Oct 5, 2015 in EMC, Storage | 2 comments

How to Remove a TDEV on EMC VMAX

Introduction

So you are doing some cleanup on your VMAX and need to remove a few TDEV volume’s in a Storage Pool and want to free this space to create a new volume or expand an existing volume.

In this post we will detail how to delete a single TDEV volume in a Storage Group. An example of such a configuration is in the case where a single TDEV was mapped and used as a dedicated server volume with no other volumes being present in the Storage Group. Scenario: It this case we are decommissioning a Server and we are reclaiming the space used in the Storage Pool.

Steps to Accomplish:

• Delete the SERVER Masking View
• Remove SERVER  volume (TDEV) from Storage group
• Delete the SERVER  Storage Group
• Disable read / write on the TDEV
• Unmap the TDEV from the FA ports
• Unbind TDEV from Pool
• META Volume Dissolve
• Delete the Device

In order to view the list of all TDEV’s created in the Pool (SERVER pool):

$ symcfg -sid xxx list -tdev -gb -thin -pool SERVER

List all TDEVs in the system

$ symcfg -sid xxx list -tdev

Delete the SERVER Masking View

List the all the views:

$ symaccess -sid xxx list view

Remove the SERVER_MV Masking View:

$ symaccess -sid xxx delete view -name SERVER_MV

Remove SERVER  volume (TDEV) from Storage group

View the details of the storage group SERVER_SG in order to gather the correct dev ID (for example 1234):

$ symaccess -sid xxx list -type STORAGE

$ symaccess –sid xxx show SERVER_SG -type storage

Remove the dev 0234 from the Storage Group:

$ symaccess -sid xxx -name SERVER_SG -type storage remove devs 1234

Delete the SERVER  Storage Group

$ symaccess -sid xxx -name SERVER_SG -type storage delete

Disable read / write on the TDEV

$ symdev -sid xxx write_disable 1234

If you require to change the status of all the devices in a SG:

$symsg -sid xxx -sg SG-Name write_disable

Unmap the TDEV from FA ports

$symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “unmap dev 1234;” preview

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “unmap dev 1234;” commit

If you require to Unmap a range of devs:

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “unmap dev 1234:1236;” commit

Unbind TDEV from Pool

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “unbind tdev 1234 from pool SERVER;” preview

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “unbind tdev 1234 from pool SERVER;” commit

Check if the Unbind was successful:

$ symcfg -sid xxx list -tdev -gb -thin -pool SERVER

Once the TDEV is unbound all pointers to the data pool are removed and those tracks that were consumed by the TDEV are marked as available space in the SERVER Pool.
If you require to Unbind a range of devs:

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “unbind tdev 1234:1235 from pool SERVER;”

Dissolve Meta Volume

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “dissolve meta dev 1234;” preview

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “dissolve meta dev 1234;” commit

Delete the Device

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “delete dev 1234;” preview

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “delete dev 1234;” commit

If you require to Delete a range of devs:

$ symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “delete dev 1234:1235;” commit

Comfirm Delete was successful:

$ symcfg -sid xxx list -tdev

that is all there is to it. The space has been reclaimed and can be re-allocated.

2 Responses to “How to Remove a TDEV on EMC VMAX”

1. max the vmax says:

   December 8, 2016 at 8:45 am

   Would you update it for VMAX3

   Reply
2. Farauque Ahmed says:

   December 8, 2016 at 10:09 pm

   Hello, the information was really helpful. Do you have steps to Decommission Servers from VMAX. Looking for the correct steps to do this in SymCLI.

   Thank you

   Reply

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