Startup and shutdown of Fabric Interconnects

UCS Fabric Interconnects are designed for continuous operation. In a production environment, there is no need to shut down or reboot Fabric Interconnects. Therefore, there is no power button on UCS Fabric Interconnects. In order to shut down UCS Fabric Interconnect, it is required to pull the power cable manually. Another option could be using smart PDUs that provide a remote control for the power of the electrical outlet.

In some rare cases, if it is required to reboot Fabric Interconnect, use the following procedure:

  1. Log in to Fabric Interconnect using SSH.
  2. Issue the following two commands:
    FI # connect local-mgmt
FI # reboot

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