Depending on your deployment plan, client activity, and overall system performance, you might need to remove a NAS Bridge cache device. In general, if a cache device is not associated with a file system and not planned for a future file system, you should remove it.
Before you begin
The cache device must not be associated with any file systems.
Steps
- Click Configuration at the top of the web page.
- Click Cache Devices.
- Select the row for the cache device you want to remove, then click Remove.
The cache device is removed from the NAS Bridge configuration.
- Remove the hard drive (disk) from vSphere.
Attention: If you do not remove the drive from vSphere, it will still be associated with the NAS Bridge virtual machine.
- Scan the host bus to ensure that the Linux operating system recognizes the change.echo "- - -" | sudo tee /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan
- When you are finished, download a NAS Bridge recovery package.
Attention: You should download a NAS Bridge recovery package whenever you make configuration changes or upgrade to a new version of NAS Bridge. Recovery packages from previous versions will not be valid.
- Go to .
- Click Generate Package.
- Select the package from the table, and click Download to download the package to your local workstation.
- Save the package to a safe location.