Starting, stopping, restarting, and refreshing Embedded Container Service Clusters

Procedures to start, stop, restart, and refresh Private Cloud Experience clusters

Starting a Embedded Container Service Cluster

  1. On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the Embedded Container Service cluster name and select Start.
  2. Click the Start button that appears in the next screen to confirm. The Command Details window shows the progress of starting services.
When the All services successfully started message appears, the task is complete and you can close the Command Details window.

Stopping a CDP Private Cloud Data Services Cluster

  1. On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the Embedded Container Service cluster name and select Stop.
  2. Click the Stop button in the confirmation screen. The Command Details window shows the progress of stopping services.
When the All services successfully stopped message appears, the task is complete and you can close the Command Details window.

Restarting a Embedded Container Service Cluster

  1. On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the cluster name and select Restart.
  2. Click the Restart button that appears in the next screen to confirm.
    The Command Details window shows the Rolling Restart of services in the cluster. When all the services are restarted successfully, the task is complete and you can close the Command Details window.
  3. Click Actions > Unseal Vault

Rolling Restart of an Embedded Container Service Cluster

  1. On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the cluster name and select Rolling Restart.
  2. Click the Rolling Restart button that appears in the next screen to confirm. On this screen, you can select the services (Docker or /and ECS), Roles (Workers only, Non-workers only, All Roles).
    The Command Details window shows the progress of rolling restart of a batch of nodes. Here, batch size refers to the number of worker roles that can be restarted in parallel. The Batch size is 1 by default.
  3. Click Actions > Unseal Vault

Configuring Restart for an Embedded Container Service cluster

  1. Navigate to the ECS service, Home > Configuration tab.
  2. Select Node Readiness Timeout OR Drain Node Timeout configurations to configure overall restart time for an ECS cluster.
    Table 1. ECS Cluster Actions and Performance Impact
    ECS Cluster action Affects Availability Impact Speed
    Stop and Start Yes All nodes Fastest
    Restart Least one node at a time Slowest
    Rolling restart (if the agent batch size is 1 then it is similar to Restart).

    Inversely proportional to the batch size.

    Depends on batch size. Speed is proportional to the batch size.That is, higher the batch size, higher the speed.

Refreshing a Embedded Container Service Cluster

To refresh a cluster, in the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the cluster name and select Refresh Cluster.