<div dir="ltr"><div>Probably: poweroff or suspend the VMs, then reboot the host. Once the host is back online just resume the VMs... (double check that any shared FS is properly mounted, specially those with the VM disk images)</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can also use --hard in case your VMs are not "ACPI aware". Note that suspends saves the VM state.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Liu, Guang Jun (Gene) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gene.Liu@alcatel-lucent.com" target="_blank">Gene.Liu@alcatel-lucent.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have the same needs for maintenance and performance tunning of my<br>
organization system. Suggestions are highly appreciated.<br>
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Gene<br>
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On Tue 21 Jan 2014 08:12:24 AM EST, Gerry O'Brien wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Is there any recommended way to reboot a host without migrating<br>
> the VM from it to another host?<br>
><br>
> The issue I have is that I need to reboot all the hosts but as<br>
> they are running a lot of large Windows images (up 100GB) the<br>
> logistics of live migration if complicated.<br>
><br>
> Can the image be put into a recommended state and resumes after<br>
> the host has restarted. I've tried shuting down the VM but this<br>
> doesn't seem to work. Maybe it is aWindows issue.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Gerry<br>
><br>
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