Suspending a Mirrored Pair

Use the Suspend Remote Virtual Disk Mirroring dialog to suspend data transfer between a  and  participating in a , without removing the mirror relationship.

The Suspend Mirrored Pairs option enables you to control when the data on the primary virtual disk and secondary virtual disk should be synchronized. This option helps to reduce any performance impact to the  application that might occur while any changed data on the primary virtual disk is copied to the secondary virtual disk.

When a Remote Virtual Disk Mirror is in a , no attempt is made to contact the secondary virtual disk. Any writes to the primary virtual disk are persistently logged in the . After the mirrored pair is resumed, only the modified regions of the primary virtual disk are written to the secondary virtual disk.

 Frequently Asked

What is a write consistency group?

 Caution: Potential loss of data access -- If the selected mirrored pair is part of a , you will automatically suspend all mirrored pairs in the write consistency group. Use the command line interface to resume single write-consistent mirrored pairs.

Important:

• Any data that is written to the primary virtual disk is logged while the mirrored pair is suspended and is automatically written to the secondary virtual disk when the Remove Virtual Disk Mirror is resumed. A  is not required.
• The state of the Remote Virtual Disk Mirror remains suspended until you use the Resume Mirrored Pair option to resume synchronization activity.

Use the following procedure to suspend a mirored pair:

Related Topics

Resume Mirrored Pair

Creating a Remote Virtual Disk Mirror