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
On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the
Embedded Container Service cluster name and
select Start.
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
On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the Embedded
Container Service cluster name and select Stop.
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
On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the cluster name and select
Restart.
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.
Click Actions > Unseal Vault
Rolling Restart of an Embedded Container Service Cluster
On the Home > Status tab, click the Actions Menu to the right of the cluster name and select
Rolling Restart.
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.
Click Actions > Unseal Vault
Configuring Restart for an Embedded Container Service cluster
Navigate to the ECS service, Home > Configuration tab.
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.