Freezing a System

Freeze a system to prevent its components from failing over to another system. Use this procedure during a system upgrade.

  To freeze a system from Cluster Explorer

1. Click the Systems tab of the configuration tree.
2. In the configuration tree, right-click the system, click Freeze, and click Temporary or Persistent from the menu. The persistent option maintains the frozen state after a reboot if the user saves this change to the configuration.

  To freeze a system from Command Center

1. In the Command Center configuration tree, expand Commands>Operations>Availability>Freeze System.
2. Click the system.

   

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3. If necessary, select the persistent and evacuate check boxes. The evacuate option moves all service groups to a different system before the freeze operation takes place. The persistent option maintains the frozen state after a reboot if the user saves this change to the configuration.
4. Click Apply.