Halting storage systems

You can use the Halt and Reboot window to halt or shut down a storage system. You may shut down a storage system to perform maintenance on it.

Steps

1.	From the Home tab, double-click the appropriate storage system.

2.	In the navigation pane, click Configuration > System Tools.

3.	Click Halt and Reboot.

4.	Perform the appropriate action:

If...	Then...
You want to allow clients to terminate connections and perform a clean shutdown of the storage system after an interval of time	Select Wait for clients and specify the time.
You want the storage system to perform a core dump, without flushing cached data, before halting	Select Dump core.

5.	Click Halt.

6.	Select the check box in the confirmation window and click Halt.

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