Power Off the Exadata Storage Servers

Perform the following procedure for each Exadata Storage Server.

Note the following when powering off Exadata Storage Servers:

• All database and Oracle Clusterware processes should be shut down prior to shutting down more than one Exadata Storage Server.

• Powering off one Exadata Storage Server will not affect running database processes or Oracle ASM.

• Powering off or restarting Exadata Storage Servers can impact database availability.

• The following command shuts down Exadata Storage Server immediately:

  # shutdown -h -y now