Select Blade Tasks → Power/Restart to turn individual blade servers on and off, or to restart them.
Select Power/Restart to perform the following actions on any blade server in the BladeCenter® unit.
- Turn on or turn off the selected blade server (set the power state on or off).
- Shut down the operating system and power off the blade server.
- Restart the blade server, with or without a non-maskable interrupt (NMI).
- Enable or disable local power control. When local power control is enabled, a local user can turn on or turn off the blade server by pressing the power-control button on the blade server.
- Enable or disable the Wake on LAN feature.
- Restart the blade server or the service processor in the blade server.
- See which blade servers are currently under the control of a remote console (indicated by an X in the Console Redirect column).
The following operations can be performed on some POWER-based blade servers.
- Restart the selected blade server and enter the System Management Services (SMS) menu.
- Restart the selected blade server and clear NVRAM.
- Restart the selected blade server and run diagnostics.
- Restart the selected blade server and run diagnostics, using the default boot sequence that is configured for the blade server.