When a scalable partition is powered on, you can use IBM Director
Console to immediately power off the scalable partition.
When you power off a scalable partition, IBM Director notifies the
operating system that the scalable partition will be powered off immediately.
The operating system then displays a message that it is shutting down. It
flushes its disk caches before the servers that are represented as scalable
nodes in the scalable partition are physically powered off. Application processes
that are running on the system are not shut down in an orderly way. After
approximately 10 seconds, IBM Director physically powers off the server.
Complete
the following steps to immediately power off a scalable partition: