Dell PowerStore Importing External Storage to PowerStore Guide

Cancel workflow for file-based import

You can cancel a file import session that is in any one of the following states:

• Queued
• Scheduled
• In_Progress
• Pausing
• Paused

The cancel operation sets the state of the file import session to CANCELLED and disables access to the destination NAS server. It also deletes the destination NAS server associated with the file import session.

The following steps show the manual cancel workflow in PowerStore Manager:

1. Select the file import session to cancel.
2. Select the Cancel import action to cancel the file import session.
3. Click Cancel The Import in the confirmation dialog box for Cancel. The following cancel processing occurs:
   1. For the selected file import session, data transfer between the source system and PowerStore is stopped, and all data imported to PowerStore is removed.
   2. Production interfaces are disabled on the destination side and enabled on the source side. Cancel is disruptive for NFS and SMB clients.
   3. The state of the import session is set to CANCELLED on the successful completion of the operation.
      NOTE:When all the file systems in a NAS server are cancelled successfully, the state of the file import session is set to CANCELLED. However, since the status of the NAS server is dependent on the final status of the member file systems, if one or more of the member file systems are in a state other than CANCELLED, the status of the NAS server is set to CANCEL_Failed. You must repeat the cancel operation again until it succeeds and the status for the NAS server becomes CANCELLED.
   4. The destination NAS server is deleted.
   NOTE:You can rerun the file import later but it does not resume from where the previous import was cancelled.