Prerequisite requirements

Before disconnecting volumes or systems, processes must be resolved or stopped, as described in the following table.

Activity in the external volume

Required operation

I/O to the external volume from the host is in progress.

Stop I/O to the volume and un-mount the volume from the host.

Host I/O is forcibly stopped if you disconnect when I/O is in progress.

The external volume includes LDEVs used in a copy pair*

Delete the pair.

You can disconnect without deleting a ShadowImage pair when pair status is PSUE or Suspend/SUSPER.

The external volume includes LDEVs registered to a Thin Image data pool.

Delete Thin Image data pool.

The external volume includes LDEVs registered to a Dynamic Provisioning pool volume (DP-VOL).

Perform the following operations on DP-VOLs associated with the external volume:

  • Stop using the DP-VOLs.

  • Block the DP-VOLs using Virtual LUN.

The external volume includes LDEVs for which Volume Migration processing is in progress.

Delete the migration plans.

* Copy software products are: ShadowImage, Universal Replicator, TrueCopy, and Thin Image.