The hard restart is an unorderly shutdown of the platform and partition images followed by a restart. After the platform restarts, the partition images are restarted based on their initial state property. This operation may result in loss of the current state of partition images and data in transaction.
To perform a hard restart
On the Fabric Manager user interface, point to System Administration, and then click CPF System.
The Details: CPF-System screen appears on the right pane.
Click Platforms and Partitions.
The platforms and partitions are listed under their respective tabs in the Details: Platforms and Partitions screen on the right pane.
In the Platforms tab, double-click the platform which you want to hard restart.
In the Summary tab, point to Advanced, and click Hard Restart.
A message asking if you want to hard restart the platform appears.
Click Yes.
The selected platform shuts down followed by a restart on successful hard restart.