Powering off a scalable partition

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:

  1. From IBM Director Console, in the Group Contents pane, expand the tree structure for the scalable system that contains the scalable partition.
  2. Right-click the scalable partition that you want to power off; then, click Power Off Now.
  3. Click Execute Now.
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