Re: [Xen-API] Cleanly shutdown server

2014-12-23 Thread Mark Benson
Following up from this, if I use a 'halt -p' the system halts but does not power down. It spews a lot of blktap errors to the dom0 local console *after* it stops the dom0 daemons and prints "will now halt". The upshot is the system isn't powering off and I suspect it's not pullung down Xen cleanly

Re: [Xen-API] Cleanly shutdown server

2014-11-28 Thread Olivier Lambert
If you have SSH/console access to the Dom0 of XenServer itself, "halt" is enough, no need to use "xe" (if the host in alone, i.e not in a pool. In this case, I think using "xe" is better). On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Mark Benson wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:18 Olivier Lambert wrote: >

Re: [Xen-API] Cleanly shutdown server

2014-11-28 Thread Mark Benson
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:18 Olivier Lambert wrote: If I'm right, you could do it by logging on the server (SSH or access it directly), and type "halt". It should shutdown the VMs gracefully then stop itself. You could also automate this stuff with a CRON job in the XenServer, or also send the comm

[Xen-API] Cleanly shutdown server

2014-11-28 Thread Mark Benson
Hi, Our Dev Server has to be shutdown every night (sadly not up for discussion) as it's in the main office. I can cleanly and easily do this from XenCenter without issues, but a few times now I've shutdown my PC before I remembered. Is there a command or set of commands I can pass to cleanly shut