Good way to stop all hosts in a cluster

I have a small environment with 2 esxi hosts in a cluster. my company will have 2 planned outages that I need to close all the servers down including the esxi hosts. What is the right way to do this to make sure that everything is properly turned off and no vmotion will trigger that everything will be turned off?

Thank you!

Welcome to the community - the order you need to shute down is:

  1. Stop the virtual machines
  2. Put the hosts in MAintenance mode
  3. Stop hosts
  4. Stop vcenter (if vCenter is a virtual machine, you will need to connect to each host separately and close).

To put it all together

  1. Start the hosts
  2. Begin to vCenter

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