Turning off the blade appliance

When you turn off the blade appliance, it is still connected to power through the BladeCenter® unit. The blade appliance can respond to requests from the BladeCenter management module, such as a remote request to turn on the blade appliance. To remove all power from the blade appliance, you must remove it from the BladeCenter unit.

The blade appliance can be turned off in any of the following ways:

• You can press the power-control button to perform a controlled shut down the blade appliance (see Blade appliance controls and LEDs).
• If the blade appliance stops functioning, you can press and hold the power-control button for more than 4 seconds to force the blade appliance to turn off.
• The management module can turn off the blade server through the advanced-management-module Web interface. For additional information, see the IBM® BladeCenter Advanced Management Module User's Guide or go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/ for more information.