https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/How-to-put-a-CloudGuard-VM-in-maintenance-mode-during-resize/m-p/56716#M2955 <P>We have deployed the VM with a size of 350 GB initially. The sk111089 mentions to complete the remaining steps by following&nbsp;sk95566. But&nbsp;sk95566 mentions in Important notes to put the device in Maintenance mode.</P><P>I can only see normal mode in&nbsp;/boot/grub/menu.1st file.</P><P>Is it sufficient to run cpstop command to make sure no other process interferes when I run lvm_manager?</P><P>Any considerations that i have to take for VM's in cluster?&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="1.PNG" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1683i9ACE712A6654DAC9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="1.PNG" alt="1.PNG" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:44:37 GMT Sarath_M 2019-06-26T12:44:37Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/How-to-put-a-CloudGuard-VM-in-maintenance-mode-during-resize/m-p/56716#M2955 <P>We have deployed the VM with a size of 350 GB initially. The sk111089 mentions to complete the remaining steps by following&nbsp;sk95566. But&nbsp;sk95566 mentions in Important notes to put the device in Maintenance mode.</P><P>I can only see normal mode in&nbsp;/boot/grub/menu.1st file.</P><P>Is it sufficient to run cpstop command to make sure no other process interferes when I run lvm_manager?</P><P>Any considerations that i have to take for VM's in cluster?&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="1.PNG" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1683i9ACE712A6654DAC9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="1.PNG" alt="1.PNG" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:44:37 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/How-to-put-a-CloudGuard-VM-in-maintenance-mode-during-resize/m-p/56716#M2955 Sarath_M 2019-06-26T12:44:37Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/How-to-put-a-CloudGuard-VM-in-maintenance-mode-during-resize/m-p/56717#M2956 <P>If I recall correctly lvm_manager will run cpstop before starting the resizing work.</P><P>Running vsec(cloudguard) on our vmware platforms, we haven't really used maintenance mode to extend the disks.</P> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:57:37 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/How-to-put-a-CloudGuard-VM-in-maintenance-mode-during-resize/m-p/56717#M2956 Sigbjorn 2019-06-26T12:57:37Z