The system is a MD3220. I'm assuming that does not change anything and that I will still need to physically be at the system to power it off?
When you hit the power switch on the second power supply, I've noticed that the system goes down instantly. I'm wondering does the system do anything specific to bring down the system in a safe manner. It does not seem like it does. I ask because what is to prevent me from just letting the scheduled power outage on the building bring the system down. With that being said, I will still probably go into the building but just asking.
If you have a manageable powerstrip/PDU, you can use it's management capability to specifically turn off the ports that power your MD3k unit. Other than that, there is no remote power down option that I can think of.
The unit can run on 1 powersupply, but when you power off (or pull the cable from) the second powersupply, the unit indeed instantly powers down. I has a battery to keep any write cache in memory (up to 72 hours I believe). To do a safe shut down, you'd power down any servers using any storage on the SAN, then give the system a few minutes (for it to realize there is no more IO and it can flush anything in write cache to disk), and then just power it off.
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Hello tradsd,
To power off the MD3220i you need to be at the system to power it down as you can’t do it remotely.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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August 8th, 2014 06:00
The system is a MD3220. I'm assuming that does not change anything and that I will still need to physically be at the system to power it off?
When you hit the power switch on the second power supply, I've noticed that the system goes down instantly. I'm wondering does the system do anything specific to bring down the system in a safe manner. It does not seem like it does. I ask because what is to prevent me from just letting the scheduled power outage on the building bring the system down. With that being said, I will still probably go into the building but just asking.
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August 9th, 2014 21:00
If you have a manageable powerstrip/PDU, you can use it's management capability to specifically turn off the ports that power your MD3k unit. Other than that, there is no remote power down option that I can think of.
The unit can run on 1 powersupply, but when you power off (or pull the cable from) the second powersupply, the unit indeed instantly powers down. I has a battery to keep any write cache in memory (up to 72 hours I believe). To do a safe shut down, you'd power down any servers using any storage on the SAN, then give the system a few minutes (for it to realize there is no more IO and it can flush anything in write cache to disk), and then just power it off.