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Changing the status of a volume

You can use Storage Manager to change the status of a FlexVol volume or an Infinite Volume when you want to take a volume offline, bring a volume back online, or restrict access to a volume.

Before you begin

  • If you want a volume to be the target of a volume copy operation or a SnapMirror replication operation, the volume must be in the restricted state.

  • If you want to take a NAS volume offline, the NAS volume must be unmounted.

About this task

You can take a volume offline to perform maintenance on the volume, to move the volume, or to destroy the volume. When a volume is offline, the volume is unavailable for read or write access by clients. You cannot take a root volume offline.

  1. Click Storage > Volumes .
  2. From the Volumes on SVM list, select All SVMs .
  3. Select the volume for which you want to modify the status.
  4. From the More Actions > Change status to menu, select the required volume status.
  5. Click Ok in the confirmation dialog box to change the volume status.