Restart All Services In order for MapR to begin to manage the local Vertica services, you must restart both systems. On one of the nodes, as the Vertica DBA User, stop the database: /opt/vertica/bin/admintools -t stop_db -d <database_name> On ALL nodes, as root, stop the vertica_agent (automatically started), unmount the vertica volume, and restart the MapR warden: service vertica_agent stop umount /vertica service maprwarden restart Validate that the Vertica service is running on the file servers: maprcli node list -filter [service==fileserver] -columns configuredservice,healthDesc On one of the nodes, as your Vertica DBA User, start your database: /opt/vertica/bin/admintools -t start_db -d <your_db_name>