text: **13.2 Shutting down IBM Storwize V7000**
  
  You can safely shut down an IBM Storwize V7000 system by using the GUI or CLI. 
  
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              [html]<thead><tr><td>Important : Never shut down your EM Storwize V7000 system by powering off the PSUs,</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>removing both PSUs, or removing both power cables from a running system. It can lead to</td></tr><tr><td>inconsistency or loss of the data that is staged in the cache.</td></tr></tbody>
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  Before shutting down IBM Storwize V7000, stop all hosts that have allocated volumes from 
  the device. This step can be skipped for hosts that have volumes that are also provisioned 
  with mirroring (host-based mirror) from different storage devices. However, doing so incurs 
  errors that are related to lost storage paths/disks on the host error log. 