metalcloud-cli vm-instance shutdown

Shutdown a VM instance

Synopsis

Shutdown a VM instance gracefully.

This command initiates a graceful shutdown process for a running VM instance. The instance will receive a shutdown signal and will attempt to properly terminate all running processes before powering off. This is the recommended way to stop a VM instance to prevent data loss.

ARGUMENTS: infrastructure_id The ID of the infrastructure containing the VM instance vm_instance_id The ID of the VM instance to shutdown

EXAMPLES:

Shutdown VM instance 67890 in infrastructure 12345

metalcloud-cli vm-instance shutdown 12345 67890

Shutdown instance using alias

metalcloud-cli vm shutdown 12345 67890

metalcloud-cli vm-instance shutdown infrastructure_id vm_instance_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")

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