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Figure 9-10 shows the MDisk menu for the external storage window.
Figure 9-10 MDisk menu in the External window
9.2.3 Removing external storage
If you want to remove the external storage systems from the IBM Storwize V7000 virtualized
environment, you have several options:
If you want to remove the external storage systems and discard the data on it, complete
the following steps:
a. Stop any host I/O on the volumes.
b. Remove the volumes from the host file system, logical volume, or volume group, and
remove the volumes from the host device inventory.
c. Remove the host mapping of volumes and the volumes ...