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Power Management

Shut down or reboot your Standalone hypervisor from the Gallium Console. Both actions are available on the deployment's Actions page.

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Power management controls are only available when the hypervisor is online.

Reboot​

  1. Navigate to the deployment's Actions page.
  2. Click Reboot in the Power Management section.
  3. Configure virtual machine handling options.
  4. Click Reboot to confirm.

The hypervisor and all running VMs will be temporarily unavailable during the reboot.

Shutdown​

  1. Navigate to the deployment's Actions page.
  2. Click Shutdown in the Power Management section.
  3. Configure virtual machine handling options.
  4. Click Shutdown to confirm.

The hypervisor and all running VMs will become unavailable.

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After shutdown, the server must be physically powered on or restarted via out-of-band management (e.g., IPMI, iDRAC, or iLO). The Gallium Console cannot start a powered-off hypervisor.

Virtual Machine Handling​

Both reboot and shutdown present options for how running VMs are handled before the hypervisor powers off:

  • Graceful Shutdown (default) — sends a shutdown signal to each running VM and waits for them to stop before proceeding.
  • Stop on Timeout — attempts a graceful shutdown, but force-stops any VMs that haven't stopped after the specified timeout. The timeout is configurable from 30 to 3600 seconds (default 60).

Force Immediate Action​

A Force Immediate Action toggle is available for both reboot and shutdown. When enabled:

  • Any pending tasks are cancelled.
  • VMs are not shut down gracefully — they are stopped immediately.
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Force immediate action does not give VMs a chance to shut down cleanly. This may cause filesystem corruption or data loss inside guest operating systems. Only use this when the hypervisor is unresponsive to a normal shutdown or reboot.