Shut Down a Guest OS in the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal

Shutting down the guest operating system of a virtual machine is the equivalent of powering off a physical machine.

Prerequisites

Verify that the virtual machine and guest operating system are powered on.

Procedure

1. On the Virtual Data Center dashboard screen, click the card of the VDC you want to explore and from the secondary left panel, select Virtual Machines.
2. Click to view the list in a card view and, optionally, arrange the list of VMs from the Sort by drop-down menu.
3. From the Actions menu of the virtual machine, select Shut Down Guest OS.

Results

The guest OS is shut down.