Putting an ESXi host into maintenance

This recipe describes what to do if one of your ESXi Servers needs maintenance.

Getting ready

We need a vCloud environment with deployed VMs as well as access to vCenter.

Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin.
Navigate to Manage & Monitor | Hosts.
Right-click on the ESXi host and select Disable Host.
Have a look at the column Total VMs. If the value is zero, you can skip the next step.
Right-click on the ESXi Server again and select Redeploy All VMs as shown in the following screenshot:
Accept the warning.
Using vMotion, vCloud will now move the VMs from this ESXi to other ESXis in the cluster.
Log in to vCenter ...

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