Managing SteelHeads : Rebooting and Shutting Down the SteelHead
  
Rebooting and Shutting Down the SteelHead
You can reboot or shut down the system in the Administration > Maintenance: Reboot/Shutdown page.
Rebooting the system disrupts existing network connections that are currently proxied through it. Rebooting can take a few minutes.
When you shut down the system, connections are broken and optimization ceases. Shutting down the appliance can take a few minutes.
To restart the system, you must manually power on the SteelHead.
To reboot or shut down the system
1. Choose Administration > Maintenance: Reboot/Shutdown to display the Reboot/Shutdown page.
Figure: Reboot/Shutdown Page
2. To clear the RiOS data store of data, select the Clear Data Store check box. Clearing the data store degrades performance until the system repopulates the data.
3. Click Reboot. After you click Reboot, you are logged out of the system and RiOS reboots.
On a SteelHead EX, both RiOS and ESXi reboot.
4. Click Shut Down to shut down the system. After you click Shut Down, the system is powered down. To restart the system, you must manually power on the SteelHead.
A warning that you have unsaved changes indicates that ESXi is not in a safe state to shut down. For example, it could be creating a disk, pushing a configuration, initializing, or in lockdown mode. If you receive this warning, click Cancel and wait for ESXi to return to a state in which it is safe to shut down or ignore the warning to continue.
To schedule a reboot
1. Choose Administration > Maintenance: Reboot/Shutdown to display the Reboot/Shutdown page.
2. Select Schedule for Later and enter the date and time you would like the reboot to occur.
The reboot executes at the scheduled time.