Reboot Foundation appliances

If you encounter a serious error, you can reboot the Foundation base appliance by entering a command on the management hypervisor. The Foundation base appliance cannot be rebooted from the CloudSystem Console.

Rebooting management appliances does not require rebooting compute nodes.

Prerequisites 

  • Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator

Rebooting the Foundation base appliance

  1. Log in to the management hypervisor on which the Foundation base appliance is running and enter the command:

    virsh reboot name_of_management_hypervisor

  2. Open the CloudSystem Console in your browser, then log in.

  3. If a login screen does not appear, enter the following commands on the management hypervisor:

    virsh shutdown name_of_management_hypervisor

    virsh start name_of_management_hypervisor

  4. Optional. Create a support dump and send it to HP, which will help in diagnosing the problem and improving the product.

Reboot the associated Foundation and Enterprise appliances in the following order, if necessary.

Rebooting Foundation appliances and the Enterprise appliance

  1. Optional. Reboot the SDN appliance.

  2. Optional. Reboot network node appliances.

  3. Optional. Reboot the proxy node appliance.

  4. Optional. Reboot the Enterprise appliance.

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