3. Move volumes out of the current protection group

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After the PROD pod is created, we have to move the FlashArray volumes containing the Oracle database into the PROD pod.

As shown in the following screenshot, the volumes comprising the Oracle database are originally in the protection group oraprd12-pg in the root container i.e. they are not contained in any pod,

Protection groups cannot be moved into a pod and volumes that are members of a protection group cannot be moved into a pod.

  • If we try to move such a volume into a pod, we will get the error - Cannot move protected volume.

Therefore, these volumes first need to be moved out of their protection group.

In the local FlashArray GUI, go to Protection --> Protection Groups, click on the oraprd12-pg protection group and remove its members, which in this case are volumes.

Using the following CLI command, a volume can be removed from a protection group.


pureuser@sn1-x70r2-e03-27> purevol remove  --pgroup oraprd12-pg dg-oraprd12-data