Use power controls
The power menu on an instance has four actions.
- Power On starts a stopped instance.
- Shutdown asks the operating system to stop cleanly. Use it for a normal stop.
- Power Off cuts power without warning the operating system. Save your work first.
- Reboot is a forced stop followed by a start.
In the API the action names are POWER_ON, SHUTDOWN, POWER_OFF, and POWER_CYCLE for reboot. Power controls in the API.