Re: Proper way to shut down all hosts in a cluster
Welcome to the Community - The order you will need to shute down is:
- Shut down the VMs
- Place the hosts in MAintenance mode
- Shut down the hosts
- Shut down vCenter (if vCenter is a vm you will need to connect to each host seperately and shut it down.)
To bring everything back up
- Start the hosts
- Start vCenter
do i need to put hosts in maintenance mode prior to shutting down VMs??
i have a VSA cluster environment with 2 hosts. according to your answer, after shut down vCenter, i would shut down each VSA accordingly as well, rite??
to bring everything backup,
1. start the hosts--> VSA --> vCenter
thanks!!