1.5 Shutting Down VM Hosts

To shut down a single VM host:

  1. In the Development Client, right-click the VM host you want to shut down, then click Shutdown.

To shut down multiple VM hosts:

  1. In the Development Client, click Provision > Shutdown Hosts.

    The Shut Down VM Hosts dialog box is displayed.

    Shut Down VM Hosts dialog box

  2. You can choose to shut down the VM hosts after the Orchestrate Agent becomes idle or to immediately shut down the VM hosts. By default, the Wait for Agent to become Idle option is selected.

  3. In the Source VM Hosts pane, select the VM hosts you want to shut down, then click Add.

    The selected VM hosts are added to the Target VM Hosts pane.

  4. Click OK.

The VMs running on the host are automatically shut down and the VM host is moved to the Shutting Down state in which it will not accept any Provisioning actions.