If you perform the pause operation on the Primary when large number of writes are in progress, then the following error message is displayed:

Operation timed out. The configuration server may be busy or down.

If you try to pause the Primary when a large number of writes are in progress you may get the above error. This is because the Primary volumes are flushed for pausing and the writes also happen at the same time.

Before performing the disable data access, pause or migrate operations, it is recommended that you run the vxrvg dismount command.