On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my datacenter for some > electrical maintenance. (Yes, I'm nervous. It's been online non-stop for > 6.5 years.) > > I have 3 Vsphere ESX 4.1 hosts that I need to shutdown along with everything > else. My vcenter server is virtualized. Two questions: > > 1) Do I need to put the hosts into maintenance mode before powering them > off? All of the VMs will already be powered off. > > 1) I can poweroff two of the hosts using the vcenter client, but after I > shutdown the vcenter VM how should I poweroff the final host? Just connect > the client directly to the host and shut it down that way? I can't think > why this wouldn't work. > > Thanks in advance,
o- If you have a physical DC with DNS, power off that last, and power it up first. o- Make sure that VMs aren't set to boot at power on. Otherwise, that looks really good - not that I'm an expert, but I've already had to do this once for exactly the same reason. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
