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fair horizon Mar 6, 2025, 9:41 AM

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With the latest critical security vulnerabilities being patched in the vSphere environment we started thinking about how we can automate bringing down a SG storage node so that the ESXi host can be rebooted.
Is there something in the Grid management API (or similar) to use for this?
Only thing I found was the /grid/node-storage-state/{nodeId} call to set the state offline but it didn't seem to do anything when I looked at the Console of the VM.

Manually we follow the procedure described here:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/storagegrid/maintain/shutting-down-grid-node.html

Shut down grid node

You can shut down a grid node from the node’s command shell.

lavish sentinel Mar 10, 2025, 2:00 PM

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There is no api in storagegrid to shutdown a node, but you should be able to use VMWare automation tools to shutdown the VM's gracefully.

fair horizon Mar 12, 2025, 8:35 AM

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Do you perhaps know of an example for doing that?
I don't see how to set it up so that the services are stopped before graceful shutdown of the VM.

abstract edge Mar 12, 2025, 9:03 AM

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you can always just log into the node and run 'shutdown now'

fair horizon Mar 12, 2025, 9:44 AM

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abstract edge you can always just log into the node and run 'shutdown now'

That is exactly what the official documentation says. 🙂
The question was for if there is a way to automate/trigger without manual node access.

abstract edge Mar 12, 2025, 9:51 AM

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i don't know what VMware actually tells the host to do, but if it simply a "shutdown" command, then there's not much else to do. It would make sense that it does that, but I don't actually know that it does via vmware tools, otherwise a lot of things would get corrupted on VM's

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