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Chapter 8 Virtual Host Bus Adapters (vHBAs) 163
10. Log in to the I/O Director.
For example, from a secure command prompt, enter the following:
where <address> is the IP address of your Oracle Fabric Interconnect and
<password> is your administrator account password.
11. On the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, remove the vHBA.
For example, to delete the vHBA named news_storage:
Note – Changing the storage configuration when using VMware might require a
rescan to discover those changes and propagate them to the ESX GUI.
Removing vHBAs in a Linux Multipath
Environment
OVN supports multipathing through EMC PowerPath software, which is
documented in the following procedures for illustrative purposes. Follow the
instructions in “Removing a vHBA and Rebooting the Server” on page 163 if
rebooting the host server is not a problem in your network. If you need to maintain
service while making your changes, follow the instructions in “Removing a vHBA
While Maintaining Service” on page 164.
▼ Removing a vHBA and Rebooting the Server
You can use the following procedure to gracefully remove the vHBAs from a Linux
server using multipathing. This procedure is the quickest and easiest method of
removing vHBAs because it concludes with a reboot of the host server. Rebooting
the server causes the vHBA driver to be reloaded into the server memory, which will
in turn trigger an automatic rescan of the storage network to learn the changes
among devices.
This procedure is useful for host servers that are not running mission-critical
applications, or that are running applications that can tolerate a short span of service
interruption due to a reboot of the host server. This procedure can be useful when
you are first bringing a server online and no other services are running.
ssh admin@<address>
Password: <password>
remove vhba news_storage