A non-VMware volume

Troubleshooting for VMware Solutions

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If the volume(s) in question are not related to the VMware environment, you must move them out. As of Purity 6.0.0 you cannot move a volume out of a linked ActiveDR pod. So to move it out you have a few options:

  1. Copy it to a new volume outside of the pod. Delete the original and then connect the copied volume to the host using it--this will be disruptive.
  2. Disable replication of the ActiveDR pod, move the volume out, then re-enable replication.
  3. Create a new volume outside of the pod and use host-based tools to move the data to it and then destroy the original
  4. Destroy the volume--this is assuming of course the volume has no importance

    Once one of these are complete you can then re-attempt reprotection.