Power Off ESX Server

[tfinoch]

If I run the shutdown command on one of my ESX server, will the VM's migrate off before it shuts down?

[vmroyale]

Hello.

No, you should put it in maintenance mode first.  That will evacuate the VMs first.

Good Luck!

[Troy_Clavell]

...unless you have a standalone host and have the startup/shutdown options enabled and configured.

[tfinoch]

Let me ask this in a different way. I am not worried about how your supposed to migrate machines off the host....at all. I have 5 hosts in a cluster with DRS on. I want to know what happens when I run the shutdown command on one of the hosts. What happens to the VM's on that host I shutdown?

[vmroyale]

If you just issue the shutdown command on the host, then the guests will shutdown (not gracefully) with it.

[tfinoch]

Thanks you.