metalcloud-cli vm shutdown

Gracefully shutdown or force stop a VM

Synopsis

Shutdown a virtual machine gracefully or force stop it. The command attempts a graceful shutdown first, which allows the guest OS to properly close running applications and services. If the VM doesn’t respond, it can be force stopped.

Arguments: vm_id Required. The unique identifier of the virtual machine to shutdown.

Prerequisites:

VM must be in ‘running’ state
User must have write permissions for the VM

Examples:

Gracefully shutdown a VM

metalcloud-cli vm shutdown 12345

Using the alias ‘stop’

metalcloud-cli vm stop 12345

Shutdown multiple VMs

for vm in 12345 12346 12347; do metalcloud-cli vm shutdown $vm; done

metalcloud-cli vm shutdown vm_id [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for shutdown

Options inherited from parent commands

  -k, --api_key string         MetalCloud API key
  -c, --config string          Config file path
  -d, --debug                  Set to enable debug logging
  -e, --endpoint string        MetalCloud API endpoint
  -f, --format string          Output format. Supported values are 'text','csv','md','json','yaml'. (default "text")
  -i, --insecure_skip_verify   Set to allow insecure transport
  -l, --log_file string        Log file path
  -v, --verbosity string       Log level verbosity (default "INFO")