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SOP on Dell EqualLogic PS 6110 shut down and reboot process

Hello all,

My office is having a planned power outage and will need to shut down our 8 year old Dell EqualLogic PS6110 and start up after outage.
The SAN is connected to 3 ESXI hosts with total of 44 VMs.

I am wondering if anyone has a SOP on SAN shutdown and start-up process.
From what I know, the sequence goes like all VMs > ESXI hosts > SAN array > power off SAN.

Does this sound right? Am I missing any steps?

I am also curious about the start up process for the SAN array. Do I just power on SAN then use DB9 console to connect to array and start it?

Thanks!

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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There is a shutdown button on the GroupManager GUI and a shutdown CLI command, they don't power it off but they do flush the cache. Or you could just leave it on for a while after shutting the hosts down so it flushes its own cache. Cache is battery backed but depending on how long the power is down the batteries may go flat

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

There is a shutdown button on the GroupManager GUI and a shutdown CLI command

if you have the correct version of Java to run the GroupManager, otherwise SSH!

Might also be a good time, to look at firmware update if applicable.

Member_2_231077

Very brave (or foolish) of you to just power it off. All SAN storage units have a proper shutdown procedure.