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Grace Full shut down of Nexus 7009 for DR testing

All,

I hope you are well and can assist with the following

WE plan to carry out DR testing and a UPS upgrade unfortunatley the server room will have no power for a couple of minutes.

Is there a gracefull way to shut down the Nexus 7009  (We have an admin VDC / two additional VDCs) or do we just switch of the power supplies on the Nexus 7009 ?

 

From Sh version below

Software
  BIOS:      version 2.12.0
  kickstart: version 6.2(2)
  system:    version 6.2(2)
  BIOS compile time:       05/29/2013
  kickstart image file is: bootflash:///n7000-s2-kickstart.6.2.2.bin
  kickstart compile time:  7/9/2013 20:00:00 [08/22/2013 04:51:27]
  system image file is:    bootflash:///n7000-s2-dk9.6.2.2.bin
  system compile time:     7/9/2013 20:00:00 [08/22/2013 08:07:03]

Hardware
  cisco Nexus7000 C7009 (9 Slot) Chassis ("Supervisor Module-2")
  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU         with 12224956 kB of memory.

 

WE will take backups for the (vlan.dat files / Flash / running config)

Your response is much appreciated

Kind Regards,

Zeeshan

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Leo Laohoo
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Before turning off the power to the chassis, issue a "reload" command.  The very minute you loose IP or console response, turn off the unit.  

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