Gracefully shutting down/restarting an individual Nutanix Host Firstly you must poweroff the associated CVM. SSH to the CVM from the Nutanix host and enter: sudo shutdown -P now Then power off/reboot the Nutanix hypervisor. Gracefully powering off an entire Nutanix cluster Log onto a CVM node and stop the cluster: cluster stop Verify the state of the cluster: cluster status Power off the CVM nodes and then the Nutanix hypervisors: sudo shutdown -P now When powering back on the nodes make sure you start the cluster: cluster start You can also runn health checks from a CVM: ncc health_checks run_all