Gridstore GS-1000-2, Administrator'S Manual

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GRIDSTORE ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE 29
Restoring a vStore
You can restore a vStore that you earlier "preserved." You may preserve a vStore when you are
moving your Grid, for example. You would remove software from the Grid (see pg. 113), but elect to
preserve the data so that you can restore it elsewhere.
Preserving and restoring vStores should only be done with the guidance of
Gridstore Technical
Support .
1. In the left navigation tree of GridControl, click the plus sign next to vPools to expand it.
2. Click the plus sign next to a specific vPool to expand it.
The vStores icon displays below the expanded vPool.
3.
Right-click on vStores, and select Restore vStore from the short-cut menu.
The Restore vStore Wizard opens.
4. Follow the instructions in the Wizard to restore your vStore.
Stopping I/O to a vStore
Before you can perform certain actions, such as expand a vStore or upgrade the software on the
Grid, you must stop all I/O (Input/Output) to the affected vStore(s). Stopping a vStore stops all I/O
communications to the Gridstore Storage Nodes in the vStore.
Note: Stopping a vStore does not affect defined mappings to the vStore, which are restored when the
vStore starts again. This action also does not power down the affected Gridstore Storage Nodes, or
remove them from the network.
1. In the left navigation tree of GridControl, navigate to the appropriate vStore. To do so:
•
Click the plus sign next to vPools to expand it.
• Click the plus sign next to the vPool that contains the appropriate vStore, to expand that
vPool.
•
Click the plus sign next to vStores to expand it.
2.
Click on the appropriate vStore in the left navigation tree so that you can view the vStore and
the Gridstore Storage Nodes it contains.
The vStore you would like to stop displays in the vStore window to the right.
3.
Right-click on this vStore in the left navigation tree, and select Stop vStore from the short-cut
menu.
The Stopping vStore dialog box opens, displaying the progress of this action.
4.
Once finished, click the OK button.
All Gridstore Storage Nodes in the vStore are stopped, and both the vStore and the Gridstore
Storage Nodes display with the Stopped status icon in the vStore window.