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I have a failing blade running VMware 5 that is in maintenance mode. &nbsp;All VM's have been motioned off to another host. &nbsp;What is the best method to shut the bad host down? &nbsp;Do I take it out of maintenance mode then right-click and Shut Down while I work on replacing the bad part?
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I have a failing blade running VMware 5 that is in maintenance mode.  All VM's have been motioned off to another host.  What is the best method to shut the bad host down?  Do I take it out of maintenance mode then right-click and Shut Down while I work on replacing the bad part?

VMware 5 and ESX Shutdown Steps

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.