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Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide

Inactivate a protection domain

Use this procedure for a graceful system shutdown.

About this task

NOTE:When you inactivate a protection domain, the data remains on the SDSs. It is therefore preferable to remove a protection domain if you no longer need it.

While a protection domain is inactivated, the following activities can take place behind the scenes:

  • Determine if there are any current rebuild/rebalance activities taking place. If so, the shutdown will be delayed (unless it is forced) until they are finished.
  • Block future rebuild/rebalance activities.
  • Temporarily disable application I/O and disable access to volumes.
  • Move the DRL mode of all SDSs to harden, in preparation for restarting the server.
  • Reload of all SDSs before re-enabling data access.

Steps

  1. On the menu bar, click Block > Protection Domains.
  2. In the list of protection domains, select the relevant protection domain, and click More Actions > Inactivate.
  3. In the Inactivate Protection Domain, enter the user password, and click Inactivate.
  4. Verify that the operation has finished successfully, and click Dismiss.

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