PCNS 4.1 Appliance. Shutdown VMs before entering maintenance mode?

[BillP]

Hello,

I'm wondering if it's possible to configure it so the guest shutdown happens before the hosts are put into maintenance mode?

In a situation where you have DRS affinity rules, or VMs that have remain on a certain host for hardware reasons a maintenance mode command would never complete due to DRS violations. This adds nearly 10 minutes to the shutdown while the command times out. I'd rather just shut down all my VMs and then have the hosts go into maintenance mode before proceeding with the rest of the shutdown.

Is this possible?

[BillP · Accepted solution]

Dwight,

It is not possible at this time. I will enter the suggestion for possible change in future release.