Re: Proper way to shut down all hosts in a cluster

Welcome to the Community - The order you will need to shute down is:

1. Shut down the VMs
   
2. Place the hosts in MAintenance mode
   
3. Shut down the hosts
   
4. Shut down vCenter (if vCenter is a vm you will need to connect to each host seperately and shut it down.)
   

To bring everything back up

1. Start the hosts
   
2. Start vCenter