Setting a Volume Offline or Online

You can set a volume offline to make it temporarily inaccessible to hosts (iSCSI initiators). Current iSCSI connections will be lost. Offline volumes cannot be found by iSCSI initiators during discovery or through iSNS.

To make the volume accessible again, set the volume online.

To set a volume offline, click:

Volumes > volume_name > Set volume offline

To set a volume online, click:

Volumes > volume_name > Set volume online

Once you set a volume online, hosts can connect to it if they have the right access credentials, as described in Connecting Hosts to Volumes and Snapshots.

Note: If all the group members that contain volume data are not online, you cannot set the volume online.