Virtual machine power off hung at 95%

[jasonvines]

I have a virtual machine that I had tried to power off and it is hung at 95%. I can't do anything to get it to shut down. I even tried the powercli and to no avail it says Another task is already in progress. Does anyone have any advice short of rebooting the host? I am running the latest 4.1 release.

Thanks

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

You can use esxcli from the latest vCLI to kill a VM - see page 95 http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp4_41_vcli_inst_script.pdf. Potentially you can also use the kill command in tech support mode, but if esxcli with the force option doesn't work then kill may not help either.




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[jasonvines]

I couldn't do a force on the VM in Powercli, but the kill command worked like a champ in the vcli.

Thanks!