Question about my off ESXi environment

Hi all

I have a question that should be easy to answer. We can to the bottom of our building for maintenance on a backup generator. This means that all servers must be stopped including our VMware environment. This is the first time I had to do this since we put in our VMware environment. My question is:

After that I have put all my virtual machines do I place my ESXi hosts in Maintenance mode before turning off their or can I just turn off the host without this concern. We have active and any HA so I thought that if I them off without Maintenance mode then HA can see that in some type of error and start trying to migrate everything.

Everything suggests that someone could provide would be greatly appreciated.

I would say not only put your hosts in maintenance mode, but also disabling HA.  This will help eleviate all false positives.  When the power is restored, gourmands on the one host at a time, out of maintenance mode and then turn on the guests.

I think that it will be fine to keep the active DRS, which will help balance the load as each host out of maintenance mode.

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