This ISN’T something that occurs frequently, but it is something that I would want to test in HA (High Availabilty) before I went to production!
As we all know, it’s a 440BX based mother board being fed into our virtual machines. The advantage? It’s sooooooooo generic that every operation system should be able to recognise and use it.
Has that changed in vSphere (ESX 4)?
Occassionally, when you try to shut down a virtual machine the progress bar will stop meaning that the process will never complete in the background. The following steps will allow you to force the shutdown of a running virtual machine.