Administrator Guide

Pause or Resume Data Reduction
Pause Data Reduction on a volume to prevent deduplication and/or compression from running during data progression.
Pausing Data Reduction on a volume pauses deduplication and/or compression on all view volumes created from the original
volume. After pausing Data Reduction, compression and deduplication stop running on new data but the existing data is not
uncompressed.
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.
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