The first step is the identify the storage that is in the pod. Identify the name of the pod you plan to demote. If you know a datastore that is in the pod, you can click on the datastore and review the summary tab for the exact name of the pod (hosting pod will be the pod name before the directional arrow in the pod property):
The pod name in this case is ActiveDRpodA and the FlashArray is flasharray-m20-1. Armed with this information, click on the top menu in the vSphere Client and choose Everpure.
Choose the FlashArray in the list and then click on the Volume Group tab below:
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In the search bar under the Volume Groups tab you can search for datastore names OR FlashArray volume names. In the case of a volume in a pod, all of their names are preceded with the name of the pod. Simply type in the name of the pod to find all of the volumes that are in use as datastores.
If nothing appears then verify the pod name. If the name is correct this means that there are no VMFS datastores from that pod in the VMware environment.
This search function will not list volumes in use as RDMs, nor volumes that are presented to other environments, nor volumes presented to the VMware environment but not in use at all. If there are more volumes in the pod that do not show up here it is because of one of those three reasons.
Click on each volume to see the volume and datastore details and then click on the Go to Datastore link to prepare the datastore for demotion. That process is discussed below.