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.
poweroff
aka
init 0
just make an connection to your esx server with the vi-client.
right click esx host and choose shutdown or reboot..
enter a reason..
