I have a promise RAID E-class… ultimately to became an Xsan member. Originally, this RAID was formatted with traditional HFS Journaled volumes. I am attempting to blast the arrays, create new arrays for Xsan preparation.
You would think that this would be simple: kill the existing arrays, add new arrays/LUN, add LUN to Xsan accordingly.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. When I create new arrays and assign the LUN initiators, the old volumes pop back up with the data still on the volumes.
I tried killing the arrays (many time) I tried resetting to the factory default via. the admin tools (many times). I even tried using absolute unique naming of arrays and LUN, controllers alike. No joy.
In a nut shell, I cannot shake the volumes that were originally created. Any thoughts? Is this a caching feature for data preservation?
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