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esxi automatic shutdown sequence

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lazy7689

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Hi all,

I recently started playing with esxi at home and I can almost get it doing what I want. The issue I'm having has to do with the sequence of automatically powering down the guests. Ideally, I need the system to power down in reverse order of start up but I cannot find an option to define the sequence for shutdown.

I have yet to put automatic shutdown in action because I am unsure of the order. I want/need it to power down in reverse order because most of the vms depend on the shares of my file-serving vm, which is the first to be started and should be the last to shutdown.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
AFAIK, if you have the VMs in the automatic startup section, they shutdown in reverse order...
 
One thing: for auto start and stop, it is really a good idea to have vmware tools installed and running on all guests if at all possible, since you can give long delays (like say 300 seconds) for the delay before going to the next guest. The reason: ESXi can tell if a guest is now running or stopped and move on to the next without waiting for the delay time.
 
vmware tools are installed on all of my guests (mix of various linux, win xp and win7 vms) with the delays set to 120 secs.

Are you saying that it's best to give it a long delay, using your example, of 300 secs and marking the option to "continue immediately if the VMTools start"?

Does this apply to shutdown as well? Meaning there's a delay of 300 secs but when esxi registers that the vm has shutdown it'll shortcut the delay and proceed to shutting down the next vm asap?
 
lazy7689 said:
vmware tools are installed on all of my guests (mix of various linux, win xp and win7 vms) with the delays set to 120 secs.

Are you saying that it's best to give it a long delay, using your example, of 300 secs and marking the option to "continue immediately if the VMTools start"?

Does this apply to shutdown as well? Meaning there's a delay of 300 secs but when esxi registers that the vm has shutdown it'll shortcut the delay and proceed to shutting down the next vm asap?
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Effectively yes, but 120 seconds should be fine unless things REALLY rely on each other (DB for instance, and client).
 
lopoetve said:
Effectively yes, but 120 seconds should be fine unless things REALLY rely on each other (DB for instance, and client).
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Thanks. I guess I'll just set it at 300 secs just to be safe since, if my understanding is correct, this time'll be bypassed if startup/shutdown doesn't take the full amount and just tick off "continue immediately..."
 
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