You can performance maintenance on hosts where instant clones reside by putting the ESXi hosts into maintenance mode. You can use vSphere Web Client to put the ESXi host into maintenance mode. By default, the instant clones on these hosts will be vMotioned to another host in the cluster.
When you put the ESXi host into maintenance mode, Horizon 8 will automatically delete the parent VM so that the host can go into maintenance mode without any manual intervention.
Instant clones configured with NVIDIA GRID vGPU can vMotion to another host without losing any functionality.
To use the instant-clone utilities, see Instant-Clone Maintenance Utilities.
Note: After the ESXi host is put into maintenance, you must wait approximately five minutes before performing any actions on instant clones after the ESXi host performs entering or exiting operations.
Procedure
- Log in to vSphere Web Client.
- Select the ESXi host that you want to put into maintenance and click .
