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VMware ESXi Graceful Shutdown on Power Failure: Proper Configuration to Prevent VM Corruption
A guide to configuring graceful shutdown for VMware ESXi during power failures: enabling VMware Tools, setting the correct Autostart order, and integrating a UPS (APC PowerChute or NUT + PowerCLI) for automatic safe shutdown. Real-world experience from an 8-host ESXi cluster in production.