Powering Down VMs on BE6000

[dspooner07]

Hello,

We recently upgraded to the BE6000.  Our building is having a powerdown over the weekend and it just occured to me that I have not powered down this system yet.  Is powering down the VMs from vSphere the same as getting into each console and running the utils shutdown command?  Is there anything else I need to be concerned with?

Thanks!

[Jaime Valencia]

Yes, pretty much all the products that use CUCM as the blueprint share the same basic CLI commands. For others like VCS, you can shut down via GUI.

EDIT: You probably want to also shutdown your server, if you have CIMC you can do all that remotely.

[dspooner07]

Thank you Jaime!

[Terry Cheema · Accepted solution]

As the guys have pointed out, Guest OS or the applications need to be shutdown manually from the CLI.

Follow the below procedure for both the VM and server shutdown:
 

1) Shut down the apps using the Utils system shutdown commands

2) Once all the VMs are off, right click the host - and Click on "Enter Maintenance Mode"

3) Then Shutdown the ESXi host

That's the exact complete procedure you need to follow to gracefully shutdown the applications and the server.

-Terry

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[dspooner07]

Thank you all for your help.  The virtuall stuff is new to me, so I wasn't sure if powering the servers down from vSphere was doing a graceful shutdown, but you all answered my question.

Thanks again!

[Rejohn Cuares]

My understanding to you question is you would like to shutdown the guest OS by these steps:

From vSphere, right click the guest (let say CUCM) from the left panel and choose Power > Power Off from the menus.

Don't do this because you are not properly shutting down the guest OS. Risk of having your Informix DB get corrupted.