You can close a hardware server by right-clicking on the hardware server in the Hardware window and selecting Close Server from the popup menu. You can also close the hardware server using a Tcl command. For instance, to close the connection to the localhost server, use the following Tcl command:
disconnect_hw_server localhostImportant: If Vivado Hardware Manager is connected to the hw_server, and the hw_server is stopped, the Hardware Manager detects this condition automatically and disconnects from the server.