Start and Stop Azure Stack Hub

Start and Stop Azure Stack Hub

You can shut down and restart Azure Stack Hub services in the Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub. Shutting down physically powers off the entire Azure Stack Hub environment. Starting up powers on all the infrastructure and returns tenant resources to the power state that they were in before shutdown. The following procedures illustrate how you can properly shut down and restart Azure Stack Hub services.

For the latest version of the Microsoft specific steps, refer to the Microsoft documentation.

Stop Azure Stack Hub

To shut down Azure Stack Hub, do the following:

Procedure

Step 1

Prepare all workloads running on your Azure Stack Hub environment's tenant resources for the upcoming shutdown.
Step 2

Open a Privileged Endpoint (PEP) session from a machine with network access to the Azure Stack Hub ERCS VMs.

For detailed information, see Using the privileged endpoint in Azure Stack Hub.

Step 3

From the PEP, run Stop-AzureStack .

Step 4

Wait for all physical Azure Stack Hub nodes to power down.
Step 5

Log into Cisco UCS Manager (https://<UCS_Manager_IP>) by using the admin credentials.

Note 

The Cisco UCS Manager IP Address is available in the Cisco deployment worksheet addendum document provided during the deployment.
Step 6

From the Cisco UCS Manager GUI, in the Navigation pane, click Equipment.

Step 7

Expand Equipment > Rack Mounts > Servers, and ensure that all the servers are in the Power Off state.

Step 8

After all the physical servers are in the Power Off state, you can remove power from the Azure Stack Hub rack.

Start Azure Stack Hub

To start Azure Stack Hub, do the following regardless of how Azure Stack Hub stopped:

Procedure

Step 1

Log into Cisco UCS Manager (https://<UCS_Manager_IP>) by using the admin credentials.

Note 

The Cisco UCS Manager IP Address is available in the Cisco deployment worksheet addendum document provided during the deployment.
Step 2

In the Navigation pane, click Equipment.

Step 3

Expand Equipment > Rack Mounts > Servers.

Step 4

Choose the server that you want to boot.

Step 5

In the Work pane, click the General tab.

Step 6

In the Actions area, click Boot Server.

After the server has booted, the Overall Status field on the General tab displays an OK status in a few minutes.

Step 7

Wait until the Azure Stack Hub infrastructure services starts.

Azure Stack Hub infrastructure services can require two hours to finish the start process. You can verify the start status of Azure Stack Hub with the Get-ActionStatus cmdlet.

Step 8

Ensure that all your tenant resources have returned to the state that they were in before shutdown. Workloads running on tenant resources may need to be reconfigured after startup by the workload manager.

Get the Startup Status for Azure Stack Hub

Get the status for the Azure Stack Hub startup routine with the following steps:

Procedure

Step 1

Open a Privileged Endpoint (PEP) session from a machine with network access to the Azure Stack Hub ERCS VMs.

For detailed information, see Using the privileged endpoint in Azure Stack Hub.

Step 2

From the PEP, run Get-ActionStatus Start-AzureStack .

Troubleshoot Startup and Shutdown of Azure Stack Hub

Perform these steps if the infrastructure and tenant services do not successfully start 2 hours after you power on your Azure Stack Hub environment.

Procedure

Step 1

Open a Privileged Endpoint (PEP) session from a machine with network access to the Azure Stack Hub ERCS VMs.

For detailed information, see Using the privileged endpoint in Azure Stack Hub.

Step 2

From the PEP, run Test-AzureStack .

Step 3

Review the output, and resolve any health errors.

For more information, see Run a validation test of Azure Stack Hub.

Step 4

From the PEP, run Start-AzureStack .

Step 5

If running Start-AzureStack results in a failure, contact Microsoft Customer Services Support.