Overview
Virtual platforms offer the ability to control various aspects of your Nasuni Edge Appliance. 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.
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.
To shut down the Nasuni Edge Appliance on the Google Cloud using the Google Cloud Console, follow these steps:
Click the Navigation menu icon at the upper left. From the drop-down menu, select Compute Engine, then select VM Instances. The VM Instances pane appears.
Figure 4-1: VM instances.
From the list of VM Instances, click the instance to shut down.
Click Stop.
Then confirm by clicking Stop.