This KB is geared towards customers who want to shutdown their HA pairs either to save cost or other reasons.
Step-by-step guide
- Login to the SoftNAS UI and launch the Snapreplicate Applet
- Next, click on action then Replicate now and make sure that all volumes are in a "SNAPREPLICATE-COMPLETE"
- Next, Deactivate SnapHA
- From here you can stop SoftNAS using two different methods:
a. You can run the commands below from SoftNAS CLI
# sync; sync; shutdown -h now
b. From the platform (AWS/Azure console) - Done