High-Availability Shutdown Options
If you have a high-availability NAS server, you have several shutdown options:
Stop the server and do not fail over packages.
You can either:
Once the server is stopped, it is no longer active in the cluster and is not serving
any file systems. To stop it, use the
Fail all packages over to the other server.
1. Stop each failover package and restart it on the other server.
2. When the packages are all failed over, stop the server (take it out of the
Fail selected packages over to the other server.
This option is similar to the previous option, except that you fail over only
selected packages.
Stop the entire cluster by taking both servers down.
You can either:
When the clustering service stops, shut down each server by using the
Shutdown/Restart
manually stop each failover package, then stop the server, or
stop the server and cause the packages to stop automatically.
cluster) using the
Shutdown/Restart
manually stop all packages on both servers, then stop the cluster, or
stop the clustering services to automatically stop all packages.
Procedure.
Configuring Your System and Network
Shutdown/Restart
Procedure.
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