Hello.
No, you should put it in maintenance mode first. That will evacuate the VMs first.
Good Luck!
...unless you have a standalone host and have the startup/shutdown options enabled and configured.
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?
If you just issue the shutdown command on the host, then the guests will shutdown (not gracefully) with it.
Thanks you.