[one-users] How to reboot a host without migrating the VMs running on it?

2014-01-21 Thread Gerry O'Brien
Hi, Is there any recommended way to reboot a host without migrating the VM from it to another host? The issue I have is that I need to reboot all the hosts but as they are running a lot of large Windows images (up 100GB) the logistics of live migration if complicated. Can the

Re: [one-users] How to reboot a host without migrating the VMs running on it?

2014-01-21 Thread Liu, Guang Jun (Gene)
I have the same needs for maintenance and performance tunning of my organization system. Suggestions are highly appreciated. Gene On Tue 21 Jan 2014 08:12:24 AM EST, Gerry O'Brien wrote: Hi, Is there any recommended way to reboot a host without migrating the VM from it to another host?

Re: [one-users] How to reboot a host without migrating the VMs running on it?

2014-01-21 Thread Ruben S. Montero
Probably: poweroff or suspend the VMs, then reboot the host. Once the host is back online just resume the VMs... (double check that any shared FS is properly mounted, specially those with the VM disk images) You can also use --hard in case your VMs are not ACPI aware. Note that suspends saves the