Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI Guide

shutdown


Description	Shuts down the Storage Controller in a controller module. This ensures that a proper failover sequence is used, which includes stopping all I/O operations and writing any data in write cache to disk. CAUTION:Performing a shut down will cause data to be unavailable from the Storage Controller that is shut down. If the Storage Controller in each controller module is shut down, hosts cannot access the system’s data.
Minimum role	manage
Syntax	Shutdown [a\|b\|both]
Parameters	a\|b\|both Optional. Specifies to shut down the Storage Controller in controller A, B, or both. If this parameter is omitted, the command affects the controller being accessed.
Examples	Shut down the Storage Controller in controller A. # shutdown a
See also	restart mc restart sc show shutdown-status