Users Guide

Figure 3. EVO:RAIL appliance restart
5. Exit the Maintenance Mode on the ESXi by using the following steps:
a. Go to the vCenter Home page.
b. From the Inventory Lists menu, select Hosts.
c. Right-click the ESXi host and select Exit Maintenance Mode.
6. From EVO:RAIL Management, click VMS in the left pane.
7. For each client VM, click Power On.
EVO:RAIL single appliance shutdown
The following manual procedure is for graceful cluster appliance shutdown of a single appliance in a
multi appliance cluster:
1. Identify the Appliance ID on the identification sticker on the physical appliance.
2. From EVO:RAIL Management, identify the ESXi hostnames on the appliance that are shut down with
the following steps:
a. Click the Health icon in the left pane.
b. Click the Appliance ID that you identified in step 1.
c. Identify the ESXi hostnames on the four nodes on the appliance you are shutting down.
3. Click the VMware vSphere Web Client icon in the upper-right corner, and then login with
administrator privileges.
4. Enable Maintenance Mode on the four ESXi hosts identified in step 2 by using the following steps:
a. Click vCenter in the left pane. The vCenter home page is displayed.
b. From the Inventory Tress menu, select Hosts.
c. For each of the four ESXi hosts, right-click and select Enter Maintenance Mode.
d. Select Move powered-off and suspended virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster.
e. Select Full data migration from the Virtual SAN data migration drop-down menu.
f. Click OK.
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