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Shut Down and Reboot Nodes

You may need to shut down or reboot one or more or all the node VMs for reasons such as performing a scheduled maintenance activity, upgrading your ESXi server, recovering from a node failure, and so on. This topic describes how to gracefully shut down and restart your node VMs and the entire Routing Director deployment cluster.

Shut down a node VM

  1. Log in to the node VM. You are placed in Deployment Shell.

  2. (Optional) Check the health of your cluster. Execute the request deployment health-check command. The Overall Cluster Status must be GREEN or AMBER.

  3. Shut down the node using the request deployment shutdown type node command.

Reboot a node VM

  1. Log in to the node VM. You are placed in Deployment Shell.

  2. Reboot the node using the request deployment reboot type node command.

  3. (Optional) After the VM has rebooted, verify that the cluster is in good health. Execute the request deployment health-check command. The Overall Cluster Status must be GREEN or AMBER.

Shut down the cluster

  1. Log in to any node VM. You are placed in Deployment Shell.

  2. (Optional) Check the health of your cluster. Execute the request deployment health-check command. The Overall Cluster Status must be GREEN or AMBER.

  3. Shut down the cluster using the request deployment shutdown type cluster command.

Reboot the cluster

  1. Log in to the node VM. You are placed in Deployment Shell.

  2. Reboot the node using the request deployment reboot type cluster command.

  3. (Optional) After the cluster has rebooted, verify that the cluster is in good health. Execute the request deployment health-check command. The Overall Cluster Status must be GREEN or AMBER.