The Virtual Business Services start operation does not propagate the online operation on constituent service groups to the child service groups that are in the local cluster but outside the virtual business service. If the child service groups are not online when you start the virtual business service, the parent service group inside the virtual business service is not brought online.

The Virtual Business Services stop operation does not propagate the offline operation on constituent service groups to their parent service groups (with FIRM or HARD VCS-level dependencies) that are in the local cluster but outside the virtual business service. If the parent service groups are not offline when you stop the virtual business service, the child service group inside the virtual business service is not taken offline.