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Prevent cloud users from performing VM operations

  • In the UI Infrastructure tab, select each physical machine and click Disable
  • Using the API, set the state of each physical machine to DISABLED

Check for operations in progress on the platform

  1. Check that the Abiquo RabbitMQ queues are empty. The number of messages in all queues must be 0:


    On standard environment, the RabbitMQ service is in the Abiquo API server. Depending on the environment, this will be the Abiquo Monolithic or the Abiquo Server appliance.



  2. Check for any active V2V conversions by checking for the V2V or Mechadora processes


Stop platform services

  1. Stop the API on the API Server server or Monolithic Server monolithic server


  2. Stop the UI on the API Server server or Monolithic Server monolithic server or dedicated UI Serverserver


  3. Stop Remote Services remote services server


  4. Stop the database on the Monolithic Server monolithic server or Database database server.

    For a datanode configuration, you will also need to stop the Galera cluster. For more details, see Stop and start HA configuration

  5. Stop RabbitMQ (on the Monolithic Server monolithic server or API Server server or Datanode)


  6. V2V Server -
    You do not need to stop anything because the BPM remote service is run on-demand only

  7. Stop Monitoring monitoring server


  8. On the Monitoring monitoring server, check if Cassandra is really dead

    Get the process number for Cassandra (the first number in the output of the previous command), and kill it. In this example, Cassandra is process 12345.


Back up the main platform elements

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