Rebooting and shutting down
You can reboot or shut down the system in the Administration > Maintenance: Reboot/Shutdown page.
Rebooting the Edge disrupts existing network connections that are currently proxied through it. When you reboot the Edge, RiOS tells the hypervisor to shut down as well. After the hypervisor shuts down gracefully, RiOS reboots and the hypervisor reboots. Rebooting can take a few minutes.
When you shut down the system, connections are broken and optimization ceases. When you shut down the Edge, RiOS tells the hypervisor to shut down as well. After the hypervisor shuts down gracefully, RiOS shuts down. Shutting down the appliance can take a few minutes.
To restart the system after shutting down, you must manually enable the SteelFusion Edge. The hypervisor will restart as well.
To reboot or shut down the system
1. Choose Administration > Maintenance: Reboot/Shutdown to display the 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 both RiOS and the hypervisor 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 appliance.
A warning that you have unsaved changes indicates that the hypervisor 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 the hypervisor 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.