How To shutdown and restart EMC CLARiion SAN – CX 300, CX 500 etc.

How To shutdown and restart EMC CLARiion SAN – CX 300, CX 500 etc.

Before you will start the process of shutting down EMC SAN, you need to be sure attached host to SAN should be disconnecting from storage.

What means of disconnecting from storage?

You need to be sure, all attached host likes windows 2000, 2003 or 2008 based SQL server, fileserver, application servers, net backup server or vmware server, cluster nodes which storing their respected data, should be shutdown before you will start to shutting down EMC SAN.

After performing above step, you can start to shutdown SAN devices in below sequence.

1. Switch off SPS A and SPS B, one by one. As show on figure 1.
2. After five minutes, pulling out all power cable from disk enclosure or DAE2P ( Disk Array Enclosure 2 Gigabit Point to Point Disk Array Enclosure )
3. Then you need to shutdown SAN switch and then SAN router ( if you have )

Restart EMC SAN devices

1. Turn it on SAN router and then SAN switch and check its connectivity with other host is up
2. Then plug in all power supply to disk enclosures one by one and wait until all drive shows green light. Just check for all hard drives on enclosure has green light
3. Then switch it on SPS A and SPS B one by one. Sequence number is not important for switch off or on of SPS.