Overview
Virtual platforms offer the ability to control various aspects of your Nasuni Edge Appliance or Nasuni Management Console. This chapter presents procedures for these control functions. Because these controls depend on third-party virtual platforms, you should follow the procedures for your specific virtual platform.
Note: The vendor changes their interfaces occasionally with little notice to the users. The exact screens and text on these platforms might change at any time.
Shutting down the Nasuni Edge Appliance or NMC
To shut down the Nasuni Edge Appliance, use the Web UI as described in chapter 3 of the Edge Appliance Administration Guide. To shut down the NMC, use the NMC as described in chapter 5 of NMC Guide.
Caution: Always shut down the NEA or NMC before shutting down the VM.
Caution: Do not reboot or power off the appliance during the first boot. After the first boot completes, you may reboot or power off the appliance as needed.
Shutting down the virtual machine
As an alternative to shutting down the Nasuni Edge Appliance or NMC as described above, you can perform a “graceful” or “soft” shutdown of the virtual machine.
On the virtual platform, you can shut down the EC2 instance of the Nasuni Edge Appliance or Nasuni Management Console.
Note: You can also shut down the Nasuni Edge Appliance or Nasuni Management Console using the Shutdown or Power button available on every page.
Caution: Do not reboot or power off the appliance during the first boot. After the first boot completes, you may reboot or power off the appliance as needed.
To shut down the EC2 instance, follow these steps:
Launch the Amazon Web Services EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/. The EC2 Dashboard page appears. Log in using your credentials.
Click Instances in the left-hand column. The Instances screen appears.
For the instance, from the Actions drop-down menu, select Instance State, then select Stop. The state changes to Stopping, then to Stopped.
The virtual machine shuts down.
Starting the EC2 Instance
On the virtual platform, you can start a stopped EC2 instance of the Nasuni Edge Appliance or Nasuni Management Console.
To start a stopped EC2 instance, follow these steps:
Launch the Amazon Web Services EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/. The EC2 Dashboard page appears. Log in using your credentials.
Click Instances in the left-hand column. The Instances screen appears.
Right-click the instance, then select Start from the drop-down list. The state changes to Pending, then to Running.
The virtual machine starts.