shutdown VSA or VIA servers

[matteu]

Hello,

I can see the restart is available on the Veeam host management for VSA and VIA but nothing about just "shutdown" them.
Is it possible to know the reason ? Is it related to DISA STIG ?

TUI is the only way to do it right ? (or hypervisor channel)

[vnikiforov]

Hello,

No, STIG has nothing to do with it. Yes, shutdown moved to the TUI, which you only reach from a physical or virtual console. Shutdown item in the TUI main menu and it asks for confirmation. A guest shutdown from the hypervisor works as well since the appliance runs open-vm-tools. I normally use guest shutdown, haven't had any issues so far.

[matteu]

Thanks for your reply.

Could I know if it s not disa stig why the shutdown option is not present but restart is please ?

It can be a feature request

[vnikiforov]

Hello,

That is a deliberate design choice. Shutdown = access to physical (or virtual) console. (TUI is the same level access) so that remote administrators are not able to disrupt backup operations by shutting down the node, just restart does nothing as after the restart jobs will continue. In some cases backup administrators has access to the virtualization level as well, in many they don't hence the separation of actions.