{"id":196,"date":"2025-04-11T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vcdlab.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:17:41","slug":"vsan-shutdown-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vcdlab.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"vSAN Shutdown Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The feature vSAN Cluster shutdown is available since the version vSphere 7.0 U3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This feature is a “game changing” for those that want to shutdown a vSAN cluster for a maintenance window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a homelab when you have to manage your resources, this feature helps a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you shutdown your vSAN Stretched Cluster ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to click right your vSan cluster, go to vSAN and choose Shutdown Cluster<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also click on vSAN cluster, go to Configure, vSAN, Services and then click Shutdown cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A window Shutdown cluster gives you all the details to shutdown properly your vSAN cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your vCenter is internal in the VSAN cluster, it will be shutdown automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to shutdown your workloads in the good order before or you can shutdown all the virtual machines during the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After clicking on the shutdown button, all the virtual machines inside the vSAN cluster will be shutdowned, The hosts will be put in maintenance mode and powered off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a easy way to shutdown your lab environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then when you want to start your vSAN cluster you have 2 steps :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Power on all the hosts of your vSAN cluster<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • When available, login to your vCenter and click Start you vSAN cluster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Hope this article will help some folks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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