The right-click and "Shut Down Guest" does a graceful shutdown. We had to power all our VMs off last night to enable EVC, and I did it with some rapid right-click maneouvres without too many issues (we have 70+ virtual machines here)
Shutting down the hosts directly with the VMs running is not a good idea. 2009/11/12 <[email protected]> > > Greetings! As an emergency call center, we are 24 x 365.25. > > We have about 30 or so virtual servers in a VMWare ESX 3.5 system. Its > datastore is an IBM DS 3400 SAN. The SAN needs a firmware upgrade... > > The upgrade requires, at one point, shutting down the ESX servers and then > shutting down the SAN. (Obviously, with the ESX servers down, the VMWare > environment ceases to exist for a period.) > > What is the least bad way to go about shutting this down? Does one need to > log into each virtual server and power it off from the vm's OS (ie, log into > Windows, then "Start -> Shut down")? Is it all right to, from the VM > managment system, simple right-click each one and select "power down"? > Would it be just as "safe" to log into the ESX consoles and shut them down > from there first with the VMs running? (We have had our environment survive > when the ESX servers shut themselves down due to a room cooling failure, but > it was rather rough on the nerves!) > > Whatever, I'm obviously not looking forward to this - but thanks! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > *ASPCA®* > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > *www.aspca.org* <http://www.aspca.org/> > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is > from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA > ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may > contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not > the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, > and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and > permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout > thereof. > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
