Starting up and shutting down the cluster

To shut down or start the cluster, we recommend contacting Technical Support. Do not shut down or start the cluster if you encounter problems with application health.

If you want to power off the healthy servers in the cluster, you must first shut down the cluster to avoid data loss.

To shut down a cluster:

1. In the application web interface, go to the Cluster section.
2. Click the Shut down button.

The main components of the application are stopped. You can now power off the cluster servers.

To start up the cluster servers:

1. Disconnect power to the servers if it has not been previously disconnected.
2. Power on the storage server.
3. Power up the remaining servers.

The cluster servers will start up.

It takes approximately 90 minutes for all servers in the cluster to start up. The application web interface becomes available before all cluster servers are started. However, for users with the Senior security officer, Security officer, Security auditor roles, the application web interface does not display the application menu, and users with the Administrator can manage only the Server configuration section.

We strongly discourage managing the sizing settings of the application until all the servers in the cluster are up and running.

When all of the servers in the cluster are up and running, the application web interface menu is displayed normally.

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