vRA/vRO Startup Order: 
1. Start MS SQL  
 
2. Disable Health Check all load balancers 
- Leave pings enabled 
 
3. Start all vRA appliance instance(s) 
- Start at same time, and wait 15 minutes 
- Verify services running 
 
4. Start All IAAS Web Server node(s) 
- Wait for start-up to finish 
- Start-up secondary web nodes if existing 
 
5. Start Manager Service node(s) 
- Wait 2 to 5 minutes to start-up 
 
6. Start DEM Orch, DEM Workers, and vRA Proxy Agents nodes 
- Any order, no need to wait on another 
 
7. Check all Load Balancers 
- Check LBs working/routing 
- Re-enable Health Check on the load balancers 
 
Verify VAMI: 
vraappliance.mydomain.com:5480/ 
 
 
Shutdown Order: 
1. Stop DEM Orch, DEM Workers, and vRA Proxy Agents nodes 
- Any order, no need to wait on another 
- Wait for all to finish 
 
2. Shutdown the Manager Service node(s) 
- Wait to finish 
 
3. Shutdown all secondary Web IAAS Server node(s) 
- Wait to finish 
 
4. Shutdown secondary vRA appliance(s) 
- Wait to finish 
 
5. Shutdown primary/master vRA appliance 
- Wait to finish 
 
6. Shutdown MS SQL service and VM 
- Wait to finish 
 
 
 
 
  
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