Problem powering down ESXi Host

[cmcternan]

I have installed ESXi 4 onto a Dell Poweredge 860 machine with a Xeon X3210 CPU. It has installed with no problems and I've managed to create some virtual machines on it.

The problem I am experiencing is when I try to power down the host. If I try to shutdown from the console I will get the 'Shutdown in progress...' message but the machine will become unresponsive. It has obviously shutdown, but the machine is still powered up.

If I attempt to perform a shutdown via vSphere I will get a similar notice in the GUI tool but again the physical machine will not power down.

I've gone through the BIOS settings and tried different permutations of the power settings but none of them seem to be resolving this for me.

I have suspected that it may just be taking a long time to shut down the virtual machines before powering down, but I have tried powering down with all VM's turned off and I still see the same results.

Hoping someone can shed some light on this.

Conor

[mudha]

have you connected any storage box to your server?

[cmcternan]

No. It's a pretty vanilla setup. Nothing connected to the host. It's just a plain server with ESXi installed and 1 VM setup (so far).

[rManic]

first Power off the VM then try to Power off ESXi from VI client.

regards

Manic

[cmcternan]

I've tried this.

I've attempted to power down the host with the VM turned off AND with the VM powered up, but both time I see the same problem.

[rManic]

ensure the VM's are Power off then

take ESXi 4.0 hosts in the maintenance mode.then try to Power off

seems it will work.

regards

Manic

[cmcternan]

I've tried this as well but no luck.

System still hangs before powering off.

[rManic]

Your Serve hardware is not in the Harware compatiblity list.So it will not work properly.

plz cross check at the following link

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

regards

Manic

[webifi]

I have 2 PE860s running ESXi 4 with the same issue. Everything works fine, sans actually powering off when requested.

If I put it in maintanance mode, restart the server, then request a power off, it appears to power off -- some times.