Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's 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.

1. If the Dell Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. In the Storage tab navigation pane, expand Volumes.
4. Select a volume.
5. In the right pane, click Edit Settings.
   The Edit Volume dialog box opens.
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.