NAME

Purge-DcsPoolMember

SYNOPSIS

Purges a failed physical disk from a pool in order to make an offline or unavailable pool healthy again.

SYNTAX

Purge-DcsPoolMember   -Disk <Object>   [ -AllowDataLoss]   [ -Connection <String> ]   [ -PipelineVariable <String> ]

DESCRIPTION

Purges a failed physical disk from a pool in order to make an offline or unavailable pool healthy again. Note: Before running this cmdlet, ensure the required actions have been taken to prepare affected virtual disks. See Get-DcsPurgePrerequisites to obtain the required actions before purging a failed pool disk.

PARAMETERS

-Disk<Object>

PhysicalDiskData object, name, or ID that identifies a physical disk. To resolve by name, the name must be unique to the server group.

Required: true

Position: named

Default value:

Accept pipeline input: true (ByValue)

Accept wildcard characters: false

-AllowDataLoss<SwitchParameter>

The purge operation cannot prevent data loss on affected single or dual virtual disks. To allow the purge operation when single or dual virtual disks are affected by a failed disk, this switch parameter is required. Using this switch parameter signifies that you are aware that there will be data loss when the failed disk is purged.

Required: false

Position: named

Default value:

Accept pipeline input: false

Accept wildcard characters: false

-Connection<String>

Alias of the connection to the server group. If not specified, the default connection is used.

Required: false

Position: named

Default value:

Accept pipeline input: false

Accept wildcard characters: false

-PipelineVariable<String>

Required: false

Position: named

Default value:

Accept pipeline input: false

Accept wildcard characters: false

INPUTS

PhysicalDiskData : Object the identifies and describes the physical disk.

OUTPUTS

PoolMemberData : Object the identifies and describes the pool Member.

NOTES

Also see Get--DcsPurgePrerequisites, Get-DcsPhysicalDisk.

EXAMPLES

Purge-DcsPoolMember -Disk "Disk1"
		

$FailedDisks = Get-DcsPhysicalDisk -Type PoolDisk | Get-DcsMonitor | Where-Object -Filterscript {$_.State -eq "Critical"}
$FailedDisks.MonitoredObjectId | Get-DcsPurgePrerequisites
$FailedDisks.MonitoredObjectId | Purge-DcsPoolMember -AllowDataLoss