Gracefully Shut down Unraid VM on ESXi with power button

davidst95 · October 31, 2019

Hi, is it possible to gracefully shutdown a VM such as an Unraid VM and power down ESXi using the power button a computer case? Thanks!

Salacious B Crum · October 31, 2019

9 hours ago, davidst95 said:

Hi, is it possible to gracefully shutdown a VM such as an Unraid VM and power down ESXi using the power button a computer case? Thanks!

You'd serve yourself better to pose this on Limetech's forum those folks are extremely helpful over there and I think unRAID is still a bit of a niche os so you would get a better response to your question over there

Jarsky · October 31, 2019

I don't believe ESXi has the functionality...you could probably create a script to send the command to shutdown all VM's and then shutdown the host via SSH or PowerCLI so you could shut it all down from a remote machine (e.g your PC or phone). You'd just need to make sure you keep VMTools up to date so it can interact with it.