Users Guide

Appendix C: EVO:RAIL appliance

shutdown or restart

The following are manual procedures for: Appliance shutdown and appliance restart. For these

procedures, there are two categories of VMs:

Service: Includes VMware vCenter Server Appliance, VMware vCenter Log Insight, and any Dell Solution

VMs.

Client: Included of all other VMs.

EVO:RAIL cluster shutdown

The following manual procedure is for graceful cluster shutdown of a complete cluster (single or multiple

appliances):

1. From the RAIL Management menu, click VMS in the left pane.

2. Turn off all client VMs by doing the following

a. If a VM is turn on, click Power Off/Shutdown.

b. A confirmation message is displayed, click Confirm Shutdown.

c. Repeat for each VM.

NOTE: Do not turn off any Dell VMs.

3. Click the VMware vSphere Web Client icon in the upper-right corner, and then login with

administrator privileges.

4. Click vCenter in the left pane. The vCenter home page is displayed.