Shutting down all ESX 4 hosts for data center outage

[morrisos]

Hello,

Can anyone please confirm the proper steps to totally shutting down all infrastructure hosts (1 cluster) for a data center outage? Obviously we need to power down the guests. I am questioning what to do next in regards to whether or not to turn off DRS and HA, putting hosts into maintenance mode or not.

Thanks,

Morrisos Mpls,MN

[marcelo_soares]

I would do:

- Shutdown VMs

- Disable HA

- Place host in maintenance mode

- Shutdown all hosts

Marcelo Soares

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[depping]

if it is vsphere:

- shutdown VMs

- disable HA

- maintenance mode

- power off

Duncan

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[morrisos]

Thanks All.