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Rebooting the storage system

About rebooting  Top

Rebooting the storage system is equivalent to halting and booting the storage system. During a reboot, the contents of the storage system's NVRAM are flushed to disk, and the storage system sends a warning message to CIFS clients.

Rebooting the storage system from the system console  Top

You can reboot the storage system if the system console is displaying the command prompt. To reboot the storage system, complete the following steps.

Step

Action
1

Send an advance warning to CIFS users to alert them to save their files and close any applications.

Attention
Never interrupt CIFS service by halting the storage system without giving advance warning to CIFS users. Halting the CIFS service without giving CIFS users enough time to save their changes can cause data loss.

2

At the storage system prompt, enter the following command:

toaster> reboot [-t minutes]

-t minutes is the amount of time that elapses before the reboot occurs.

Rebooting the storage system remotely  Top

You can reboot a FAS3000 series storage system remotely if you are able to log in to the RLM installed in the storage system. To reboot the storage system remotely from the RLM, complete the following steps.

Step

Action
1

From the administration host, log in to the RLM. For more information, see Logging in to the RLM.

2

From the RLM prompt, enter the following command.

RLM toaster> system console
3

From the storage system console prompt, enter the following command:

toaster> reboot

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