Stopping SVMs

You can stop a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) if you want to troubleshoot any issue with the SVM, delete the SVM, or stop data access from the SVM. You cannot stop SVMs during storage failover (SFO).

Before you begin

All the clients connected to the SVM must be disconnected.

Attention: If any clients are connected to an SVM when you stop it, data loss might occur.

Steps

1.	From the home page, double-click the appropriate storage system.

2.	Expand the Storage Virtual Machines hierarchy in the left navigation pane.

3.	In the navigation pane, select the appropriate cluster.

4.	Select the SVM that you want to start and click Stop.

Result

The SVM stops serving data to clients. An SVM administrator cannot log in to the SVM.

Parent Topic: What SVMs are