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(Veritas) Removing the ASL and APM

If you do not require the ASL and APM, you can remove them from the host.

About this task

You do not need to stop any volumes created on unaffected disk arrays, such as disk arrays from other vendors, before removing ASL and APM support. This is also true for arrays or disks in the OTHER_DISKS category. The OTHER_DISKS category includes local non-FC attached disks. Volumes created on these arrays remain accessible because they do not have multipath support.

Steps

  1. Log in to the host as the root user.
  2. Stop all I/O to LUNs configured on storage controllers.
    Note: In a Storage Foundation RAC cluster, you should also stop clustering on a node before you remove the ASL and APM.
  3. Use the rpm command to remove the ASL package. This command has the format: rpm -ev asl_rpm_name
    Example

    The following command line removes a previous version of the ASL:

    If you are using... Enter the following command...
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux rpm -ev VRTSNTAPasl-5.0-3.0_RHEL5
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server rpm -ev VRTSNTAPasl-5.0-3.0_SLES10
  4. Use the rpm command to remove the APM package. This command has the format: rpm -ev apm_rpm_name.
    Example

    The following command line removes a previous version of the APM:

    If you are using... Enter the following command...
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux rpm -ev VRTSNTAPapm-5.0-1.0_RHEL5
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server rpm -ev VRTSNTAPapm-5.0-1.0_SLES10