Removing Disks (GCP)

To remove disks from a running cluster

1. Determine FlashGrid names of the drives to be removed, e.g. rac2.shared-7:

   $ flashgrid-cluster drives

2. If the drives are members of an ASM disk group then drop the drives from the disk group. Example:

   SQL> alter diskgroup MYDG
   drop disk RAC1$SHARED_7
   drop disk RAC2$SHARED_7
   rebalance wait;

3. Prepare the disks for removal. Example:

   [fg@rac1 ~] $ flashgrid-node stop-target /dev/flashgrid/rac1.shared-7
   [fg@rac2 ~] $ flashgrid-node stop-target /dev/flashgrid/rac2.shared-7

4. Detach the disks from the VMs.