Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.6 Administration Guide Performing Other Administration Tasks Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling an Oracle VM Server for SPARC System How to Power Off a System With Multiple Active Domains How to Power Off a System With Multiple Active Domains Shut down, stop, and unbind all the non-I/O domains. Shut down, stop, and unbind any active I/O domains. Change the domain into init state 5. primary# shutdown -i 5 Instead of using the shutdown command, you can also use the init 5 command.