Thanks John, Robert and Kurt. I've got a full plan for how to go about the shutdown and restart. One physical DC will be the last to shutdown and the first to power up. Putting that plan together was long overdue and a good exercise in really understanding dependencies.
Now pray for the disk drive gods to be merciful, and the resume won't need to be touched... Thanks again, RS On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, > > RS > > One more thing... > > If you have a multi-site environment, and your connectivity to the > other sites will be affected, then when bringing things back up, make > sure you have connectivity to the other sites before bringing up your > DC - so firewall/router/VPN connections before the DC, in this case. > Then, make sure your DC is communicating with DCs in other sites > before bringing up the rest of the infrastructure. > > It's not that I think that anything *bad* will happen if you do it out > of order - but it gave me much more peace of mind when I did that. > > 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 > ~ 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
