
Dell VxRail™ Appliance 4.7x Administration Guide
Shut down a single node
Shut down an individual node in a cluster.
About this task
This is useful when replacing node hardware or performing other maintenance tasks.
Steps
- On the VMware vSphere Client, click Hosts and Clusters and select your VxRail cluster from the left navigation bar.
- Select the Monitor tab.
- Select VxRail > Physical View from the inner left navigation bar.
- Click the host to view and then click the View Host Details link (hostname) on the right side of the window.
- Click Actions and select Shutdown Host.
- On the Shutdown Host window, correct any issues that are detected by the precheck routine.
- When the precheck routine completes, click Continue to shut down the node.
Results
- Hosts are not in maintenance mode
- Cluster health monitoring is on
- Hosts are connected
- DRS is enabled, or that all VMs on this host have been shut down
- All VMs with vGPU enabled have been shut down
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