Changes the state of all metadata servers in the cluster to one of three quiescent states.
>>-quiescecluster--+--------+-- -state--+-full----+------------>< +- -?----+ +-offline-+ +- -h----+ '-part----' '- -help-'
You would put the cluster in this state to produce self-consistent LUN-based backups for a known FlashCopy® image.
You would put the cluster in this state to restrict clients from accessing the cluster.
You would put the cluster in this state to produce a metadata consistent LUN-based backup, which is faster and less disruptive than a fully quiescent backup. The user data is not necessarily consistent, so the application must either be able to tolerate inconsistent data or perform its own recovery.
You must have Operator or Administrator privileges to use the command.
You must be logged in to the operating system on the engine hosting the master metadata server to run this command.
You can use the resumecluster command to return all the metadata servers in the cluster to the online state.
sfscli> quiescecluster -state full
Cluster successfully in quiescent state.
Parent topic: Administrative commands
Related tasks
Backing up using the LUN method
Changing active cluster states
Related reference
chadvclusterconfig
chclusterconfig
resumecluster
startcluster
statcluster
stopcluster
upgradecluster