Administrator Guide
Pause or Resume Data Reduction for a Volume
Pausing Data Reduction for a volume prevents compression and deduplication from happening until Data Reduction is resumed.
Steps
1. If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane of Unisphere
Central.
2. From the STORAGE menu, click Volumes.
The Volumes view is displayed.
3. In the Volumes view, select the volume you want to modify.
4. Click
(Edit).
The Edit Volume dialog box opens.
5. Expand the Data Reduction option.
6. Pause or resume Data Reduction on the volume.
• To pause Data Reduction, select the Data Reduction Paused checkbox.
• To resume Data Reduction, clear the Data Reduction Paused checkbox.
7. Click OK.
Pause or Resume Data Reduction for all Volumes
Pausing Data Reduction from the Storage Center Edit Settings dialog box pauses compression and deduplication for all volumes in that
Storage Center.
About this task
NOTE:
Pause Data Reduction cannot be applied to other Storage Centers from the Storage Center Edit Settings dialog
box using inherit settings.
Steps
1. If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane of Unisphere
Central.
2.
Click the HOME menu.
The Unisphere Central Home page is displayed.
3. In the Summary view, click the Settings icon.
The Edit Storage Center Settings dialog box opens.
4. Click the Storage tab.
5. Pause or resume Data Reduction.
• To pause Data Reduction, select the Pause Data Reduction checkbox.
• To resume Data Reduction, clear the Pause Data Reduction checkbox.
6. Click OK.
Disable Data Reduction for a Volume
Disabling Data Reduction on a volume permanently uncompresses the reduced data starting the next data progression cycle.
Steps
1. If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane of Unisphere
Central.
2.
From the
STORAGE menu, click Volumes.
The Volumes view is displayed.
3. In the Volumes view, select the volume you want to modify.
4. Click (Edit).
The Edit Volume dialog box opens.
5. Expand the Data Reduction option.
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