It will take a few minutes to halt ONTAP and stop the instance, however the time it takes to deallocate the instance depends on the backend provider. Once stopped, it can take up to 15 minutes for the...It will take a few minutes to halt ONTAP and stop the instance, however the time it takes to deallocate the instance depends on the backend provider. Once stopped, it can take up to 15 minutes for the instance to initialize, however the time it takes to allocate the instance depends on the backend provider. It can take up to 15 minutes for ONTAP to boot, all services to start up, however this depends on the instance type and backend provider.