A workflow for a complete shutdown of DataCenter

[NVA]

Hi,

We have 21 ESXs (VSphere 4 enterprise PLUS) and one VCenter 4.

We need to create a workflow for a complete shutdown of our DataCenter (shutdown VMs and ESX).

We can shutdown just one VM or all VM of an object (cluster, ressource pool, etc), but we want to shutdown VMs in a specific order and wait five minutes after the shutdown of a specific VM... Have you idea about this ? How can we create this kind of workflow (We have about 180 VMs) !

Thank you for your help and advise...

Regards,

[admin]

What you can do is write a workflow using:

- a loop (example in the document section from a workflow that creates multiple VMs)

- the "shutdownVM" workflow

- the "getAllVMsOfCluster" action

- the waiting timer

- a script similar to the below to set the time to the waiting timer (replace 5 * 60 *1000 to get the time you want to wait)

userInteractionExpTime = new Date();

System.log( "Current date : '" + userInteractionExpTime + "'" );

userInteractionExpTime.setTime( userInteractionExpTime.getTime() + (5 * 60 * 1000) );

System.log( "Waiting timer will expire at '" + userInteractionExpTime + "'" );

Good luck,

Sia

[NVA]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply !

Ok I go to try this...

Regards,

[AndyShine]

NVA,

Did you get any where with this? I've got to do the exact same thing (though on a smaller scale). Orchestrator looks like the toold for the job but I'm a complete newbie with the product.

Regards

[admin]

Hi Andy,

Since you are new to vCO, it would be helpful for you to refer how to write workflows and use the existing workflows. Please refer to section developing workflows and calling workflows within a workflow from http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vco_40_developers_guide.pdf. As mentioned by Sia, there is an existing worklfow shutdown guest OS and wait, which you can call from your workflow and then set the timer accordingly for the time to wait.