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What the Power Commands Do on Different Servers
The effects of the service processor power management commands differ from one vendor’s service processor to another. The possible options are described in the following table. If a service processor provides more than one of the options shown, the hard option is performed.
Power cycle (turn power off, then on again, to reboot the server)
Hard power cycle: remove the power, wait several seconds, and then turn the power on again (to reboot the server)

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