How to start and stop the storage system

You can start your storage system in several ways. You can boot the storage system from the system or boot environment prompt. Depending on the model of your storage system, you may also be able to start the storage system remotely or through netboot. You can restart your system by halting and booting it.

• How to boot the storage system
  The storage system automatically boots Data ONTAP from a PC CompactFlash Card or from disk. The system has a PC CompactFlash card, shipped with the current Data ONTAP release and a diagnostic kernel in a single File Allocation Table (FAT) partition. The CompactFlash card contains sufficient space for an upgrade kernel.
• How to use storage systems as netboot servers
  You can configure a storage system to serve boot images to other NetApp devices that support netboot. You can also serve netboot images from your storage system.
• About rebooting the storage system
  Rebooting the storage system is equivalent to halting and booting the storage system. During a reboot, the contents of the storage system's NVRAM are flushed to disk, and the storage system sends a warning message to CIFS clients.
• Halting the storage system
  The halt command performs an orderly shutdown that flushes file system updates to disk and clears the NVRAM