Hello,
I'm using autostart settings to shutdown VM's in right order.
Settings are like follows.
VM01 - Shutdown behavior: Shutdown, Autostart order 1, Start delay: 30s, Stop delay 120s
VM02 - Shutdown behavior: Shutdown, Autostart order 2, Start delay: 30s, Stop delay 120s
VM03 - Shutdown behavior: Shutdown, Autostart order 3 Start delay: 30s, Stop delay 0s
For shutdown, VM03 comes first and VM02 start shutdown at the same time because Stop delay of VM03 is 0s.
VM01 will start shutdown right after VM02 finish it's shutdown down.
If VM02 takes more than 120s to shuttting down, ESXi power off the VM02 and start VM01's shutdown.
Same for VM01.
ESXi shutdown itself after both VM01 and VM03 finish it's shutdown.
(For VM01, it might be force power off if VM01 takes longer than 120s, VM01's stop delay)
I understand so,,, but the VM03 seems to be force poweroff sometimes, because the journal logs of VM03 sometimes stopes suddenly.
For normal shutdown, I think the last log must be "Journal stopped", but not so on VM03.
With the "Stop delay 0", does ESXi has rules to do force power off?
I searched docs but could not find right answer,,
