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mbuk123
Contributor
Contributor
‎09-11-2015 06:08 AM

Where is the button to restart a VROPS Appliance?

Is there a reboot button on the GUI?

Andrew

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larsonm
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎09-11-2015 12:58 PM

There is not.  You can take the node offline in the GUI, and reboot via VMware Tools.

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admin
Immortal
Immortal
‎09-12-2015 02:09 AM

There is no button to reboot the appliance (which is rarely needed by the way). In most cases you want to restart vR Ops application or cluster. There is a button for it: login to http://vrops-ip/admin and you will see "System Status" -> "Cluster Status" and a button take the cluster  offline or online again. If you want to restart the application on individual node you can click on red/green restart icon in the bottom section.

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mbuk123
Contributor
Contributor
‎09-12-2015 09:33 AM

Thanks guys for your help with this.

Andrew

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JohnGibson
Hot Shot
Hot Shot
‎09-17-2015 03:07 AM

I've had issues before with patching and restarts, If you have multiple nodes, the process needs to be followed in the right order...

If its just a single data node, take it offline and then reboot via VMware tools... if its the master node then be more careful...

If its the whole cluster:

  • Bring cluster offline in the admin UI.
  • Shut-down data nodes first -> Master replica -> Master node
  • (Snapshot if making a patch upgrade)
  • Boot-up Master node (wait for it to come up) then boot -> Replica node -> Data nodes.
  • Bring cluster online in the admin UI.

John

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MacVay
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎09-17-2015 05:48 AM

Another option is restarting the services with SSH to the node

service vmware-vcops restart

A quick and easy way to restart services if you do not need to down the appliance OS...

Cheers,

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