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You could set disk offline in Disk Management or you could go to your fiber channel switch and remove the host from zone.
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You could set disk offline in Disk Management or you could go to your fiber channel switch and remove the host from zone.

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Hello,<br />
I have a storage volume that I have adding to a Windows 2008 Server that I want to dismount. &nbsp;<br />
Would the proper way be to go into Disk Management and delete the volume or do I just take it offline?<br />
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Thank You
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Hello,
I have a storage volume that I have adding to a Windows 2008 Server that I want to dismount.  
Would the proper way be to go into Disk Management and delete the volume or do I just take it offline?

Thank You

Demounting a drive from Windows 2008 Server

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.