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Bigaldover
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Power Down ESX Serv

Hi Everyone,

From Time to time we need to shut down our data center for maintenance.

I am trying to automate the shutdown as much as possible, so far I have allowed our operators group shutdown -h now in the sudoers file.

This works fine, and If need be I can script and automate this for emergency power down situations like generator fails etc...

However I have not been able to figure out how to power down remotely.

In some linux instances you can pass shutdown -p ( this is a soft power off after the os goes down)

I am running my VM hosts on ProLiant DL 380, 580 and 585.

I am also using the latest management pack 7.70.

All suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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dominic7
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poweroff

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Jae_Ellers
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aka

init 0

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dmaster
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just make an connection to your esx server with the vi-client.

right click esx host and choose shutdown or reboot..

enter a reason..