# Stop or Suspend a percona cluster

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/stop-or-suspend-a-percona-cluster/11094>\
**Category:** MySQL & MariaDB\
**Tags:** mysql, percona\
**Created:** [June 29, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/stop-or-suspend-a-percona-cluster/11094 "2021-06-29T04:51:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![manu\_enc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@manu\_enc](https://forums.percona.com/u/manu_enc)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/stop-or-suspend-a-percona-cluster/11094/1 "2021-06-29T04:51:58Z")

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Hi,

We have a percona cluster with 3 mysql server nodes part of it. We want to break or suspend this cluster. We want to run these mysql servers individually. So by removing the below changes in my.cnf of all nodes and restart them, would that be enough to stop or suspend the cluster?

_wsrep\_cluster\_address=gcomm://172.20.2.211,172.20.2.212,172.20.2.213_  
_wsrep\_provider=/usr/lib64/libgalera\_smm.so_  
_wsrep\_provider\_options=“gcache.size=4G”_  
_wsrep\_sst\_method=xtrabackup-v2_  
_wsrep\_node\_name=ip-172-20-2-212_  
_wsrep\_slave\_threads=24_  
_wsrep\_slave\_FK\_checks=0_  
_wsrep\_retry\_autocommit=100_  
_wsrep\_sst\_auth=SST\_Snapshot:xxxxxxxxxxx_

Thanks and Regards,  
Manohar.

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/stop-or-suspend-a-percona-cluster/11094/2 "2021-06-29T13:31:30Z")

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There is a big difference between ‘break’ and ‘suspend’. The first is permanent and the second is temporary. Once you break PXC and change the data you can no longer resume the cluster. ‘Suspend’ means to temporarily stop the cluster and resume it again in the future.

But yes, if you remove all those parameters, you will turn off all the clustering.

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**Author:** ![manu\_enc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@manu\_enc](https://forums.percona.com/u/manu_enc)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/stop-or-suspend-a-percona-cluster/11094/3 "2021-06-29T14:26:14Z")

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Thanks @matthewb this is what we need!