Cause is under investigation.

DO NOT use Veritas Enterprise Administrator or command line interface vxassist delete command to delete logical drives that were created by Logical Disk Manager.

Instead use Logical Disk Manager (LDM)  to manage volumes and partitions created in LDM.

Applies To

SFW 5.1 SP2, SFW 6.0, SFW 6.0.1, SFW 6.0.2

Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012

If a user uses Microsoft Logical Disk Manager (LDM) to create mulitple logical drives on an extended partition after installing Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) and then attempts to delete one of these logical drives using Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA), multiple logical drives on the same extended partition may be deleted without warning, causing data loss.   Example scenario:

• Install SFW on server(s)
• Use DISKPART to create an Extended Partition
• Use LDM to create mulitple logical drives (volumes) on this new partition
• In VEA, right-click on one of the logical drives and select Delete Partition
• Choose Yes when prompted to delete the volume
• The selected volume is deleted
• Other volumes on the extended partition are also unexpectedly DELETED, without warning, causing data loss.

Using the command line interface: vxassist delete command will also result in the same unexpected deletions and data loss.