Users Guide

WARNING: Do one ESXi host at a time. Wait until the ESXi host has entered maintenance

mode before proceeding to the next. Full Data Migration can take a long time. For

information, see Place a Member of Virtual SAN Cluster in Maintenance Mode and Virtual SAN

— Maintenance Mode Monitoring.

Figure 4. EVO:RAIL Single Appliance Shutdown

5. Turn off the four ESXi hosts by using the following steps:

a. From Inventory Trees, select Hosts.

b. Right-click the ESXi host, and then select Shut Down.

c. Type the reason for the shutdown and click OK.

d. Repeat for each ESXi host.

EVO:RAIL single appliance restart

The cluster is restarted in the reverse order:

1. Turn on each EVO:RAIL appliance.

2. Log in to vSphere Web Client as by using an account with administrator privileges.

3. Click vCenter in the left pane and the vCenter Home page is displayed.

4. Exit the Maintenance Mode on the ESXi by using the following steps:

a. Go to the vCenter Home page.