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Yes always restart your virtual machines using the guest OS (within Windows), but if you have VMware Tools installed in your virtual machines then you can just use the vSphere client 'Restart Guest' for a graceful restart. Remember 'Reset' or 'Power Off' don't shutdown the guest OS.
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What is the best practice for rebooting a virtual machine? &nbsp;I use vmware vshpere client to access the virtual machines. &nbsp;Should I just go to start - restart or should I got through shutting down through the guest using power - restart guest?
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What is the best practice for rebooting a virtual machine?  I use vmware vshpere client to access the virtual machines.  Should I just go to start - restart or should I got through shutting down through the guest using power - restart guest?

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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.