Storage Foundation for Windows supports detaching and attaching disks of dynamic disk groups. This feature lets you detach dynamic disks for maintenance or other reasons and then attach the dynamic disks when they become available for use. Detached disks are no longer accessible and cannot be operated on until they are reattached.

Detaching and attaching disks using the VEA GUI is described in this section.

You can also detach and attach a disk using the vxdisk CLI command.