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Restarting Appliance Virtualization Platform or an ESXi host

About this task

The restart operation fails, if you restart the host on which System Manager itself is running. If you want to restart the host, you can do this either through vSphere Client or through the Solution Deployment Manager client.

Procedure

  1. In VM Management Tree, select a location.
  2. On the Hosts tab, in the Hosts for Selected Location <location name> area, select a host.
  3. Click More Actions > Lifecycle Action > Host Restart.
  4. On the confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

    The system restarts the host and virtual machines running on the host.