Hi both, Thanks very much for your answers. Well, I know that checkbox for setting a host into maintenance mode, but I don't want to set the host in maintenance mode. In the past we left the ...
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Hi both, Thanks very much for your answers. Well, I know that checkbox for setting a host into maintenance mode, but I don't want to set the host in maintenance mode. In the past we left the host running regularly, powered down all VMs besides domain controllers and vCenter itself and just shut the host down. The offline VMs were not moved to the second still running host. Afterwards we shut the second host down, where domain controllers and vCenter are still running. Of course here was nothing moved because no further host available. The benefit of our approach was, after the maintenance the first level guys just had to press the power button on both hosts and it came up, exactly as it was configured before. Domain controllers and vCenter was starting automatically due to remembered last state and all VMs were well distributed. Nevertheless, you are right. I have to rethink my whole procedure and work with maintenance mode for the first host and just shutdown the last host without. Best regards Stefan
