[j-nsp] Power ON?

[Saku Ytti]

Is the confusion how it could possibly make sense to power on your
vmhost, when you're running on it?

I believe the use-case is mostly to power-on/power-off vmhost on non-current RE.


On 3 April 2018 at 15:41, Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
> Seeing it on my MX960 also...
>
> agould@ 960> request vmhost ?
> Possible completions:
>   cleanup              RE vmhost cleanup /var/tmp, /var/crash and /var/log
>   file-copy            Copy file from vmhost to vjunos
>   halt                 Halt the software on RE
>   hard-disk-test       Run smartd self tests on hard disks
>   power-off            Power off the software on RE
>   power-on             Power on the system
>   reboot               Reboot RE vmhost
>   snapshot             Create a vmhost recovery snapshot
>   software             Perform vmhost software extension or upgrade
>   zeroize              Erase all data, including configuration and log files
>
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ola Thoresen
> Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:59 AM
> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Power ON?
>
> On 02. april 2018 21:00, Chris Adams wrote:
>
>> Working on a new MX204, I noticed this:
>>
>> user at router> request vmhost power-o?
>> Possible completions:
>>    power-off            Power off the software on RE
>>    power-on             Power on the system
>>
>> Really?  The RE VM can tell the VM host to power ON? :)
>
> We noticed the same thing, and had a good laugh last week.
>
> Another fun thing is that if you just do a "vmhost halt", you can restart it by pushing a button in the serial console.  But if you do a power-off, you need to pull the power cord (no "on/off" switch in the PSUs or chassis) .
>
>
> /Ola (T)
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