To avoid data loss and maintain the components and workloads of your vSphere IaaS control plane environment operational, you must follow the specified order when shutting down or starting up the components.

Typically, you perform the shutdown and startup operations after you apply a patch, upgrade, or restore your vSphere IaaS control plane environment.

The vSphere IaaS control plane solution, including TKG clusters provisioned by the TKG, is part of the vSphere software defined data center (SDDC). As such, you must take into consideration the entire vSphere infrastructure stack when performing a shut down and start up of your vSphere IaaS control plane environment. Refer to the following validated set of procedures for shutdown and start up of the vSphere SDDC including vSphere IaaS control plane: