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Sorry for the delayed response. I had a look and see that both new options "Revert and Restart" and "Revert and Reset" build on the "Revert" option which in turn builds on the "Shutdown" option which does a graceful shutdown i.e. shut down the virtual machine through the guest operating system. In VMWare vSphere client, a virtual machine doesn't have to be gracefully shutdown: it can be "hard powered down" which is like hitting the power switch on a physical machine. I haven't yet tested the new options but since the virtual machines takes some time to shutdown, we've found that a graceful shutdown doesn't work in our use case. Currently we're using the "Suspend" option which immediately suspends the machine, breaking the connection between the slave and the host. Since this option works, I suspect that providing a way to "hard power down" instead of "shutdown" will resolve the issue. This could take the form of options: