Hi,

Has anyone out there set up a foolproof tool for admins to use to shut down storage clusters during/for maintenance?  Or do you simply let them go down / come up with the power like a network switch?

I’m trying to figure out what it would take to create an “easy button” admins could use to shut down a storage cluster, basically so I don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to run one command.  Some kind of web-based interface I could enable/disable as needed where an admin could type the name of the cluster in a text box and click the shutdown button.  I suppose they should authenticate with the interface so their credentials could be captured and logged too.

I suppose I could cron-job it, but that relies on others doing their part to get VMware shut down before the storage goes away.

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scott