If you can plan ahead when to shut down and start up a VMware Cloud Director appliance cluster, for example, when a planned data center maintenance occurs, you can perform an orderly shutdown and startup of the whole cluster.
Perform an Orderly Shutdown of a VMware Cloud Director Appliance Cluster
You must follow specific steps when shutting down a whole VMware Cloud Director cluster.
Prerequisites
When shutting down a cluster running VMware Cloud Director 10.1 or later, if the automatic failover in case of a primary database service failure is activated, change the failover mode to Manual
. After the startup of the cluster, you can set the failover mode to Automatic
. See Automatic Failover of the VMware Cloud Director Appliance.
Procedure
Perform an Orderly Startup of a VMware Cloud Director Appliance Cluster
You must follow specific steps when starting up a whole VMware Cloud Director cluster.
Note: You must follow the specific order of powering on the
VMware Cloud Director appliance cells.
Procedure
- Log in to the vSphere Client UI.
- Power on the primary cell.
- Power on any standby cells.
- Power on any application cells.