Shut down and Start Sequence for a VMware SDDC Stack
Article ID: 395930
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Products
VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)
Issue/Introduction
This article aims to provide details on the shutdown and start up sequence for the set of products in a VMware SDDC stack.
Resolution
A, If this is not a VCF SDDC Manager managed environment:
Shutdown procedure:
| Shutdown Order | SDDC Component |
| 1 | Containerized customer workloads |
| 2 | Find out the location of the vSphere with Tanzu virtual machines * |
| 3 | vSphere Cluster Services virtual machines |
| 4 | Supervisor Cluster Control Plane virtual machines |
| 5 | Tanzu Kubernetes cluster control plane virtual machines |
| 6 | Tanzu Kubernetes cluster worker node virtual machines |
| 7 | Harbor virtual machines |
| 8 | Aria Automation Cluster |
| 9 | Aria Operations for Logs |
| 10 | Aria Operations cluster and Collectors |
| 11 | Clustered Workspace ONE Access* (VIDM) |
| 12 | VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle™ |
| 13 | Site Recovery Manager |
| 14 | vSphere Replication |
| 15 | NSX Edge nodes* |
| 16 | NSX Manager nodes* |
| 17 | vCenter Server* |
| 18 | ESXi hosts |
Startup Procedure:
| Startup Order | SDDC Component |
| 1 | ESXi hosts` |
| 2 | vCenter Server |
| 3 | vCLS virtual machines |
| 4 | NSX Manager nodes |
| 5 | NSX Edge nodes * |
| 6 | vSphere Replication |
| 7 | Site Recovery Manager |
| 8 | VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle* |
| 9 | Clustered Workspace ONE Access* |
| 10 | Aria Operations Analytics cluster and remote collectors |
| 11 | Aria Operations for Logs |
| 12 | Aria Automation Cluster |
| 13 | Started automatically after you start vCenter Server and vCLS, and NSX for the VI workload domain.Supervisor Control Plane virtual machines Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster control plane virtual machines Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster worker virtual machines Harbor registry virtual machines |
| 14 | Containerized customer workloads |
B. If this is a VCF SDDC Manager managed environment:
Shutdown VMware Cloud Foundation Stack:
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1. Shut Down a Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain with vSphere with Tanzu
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Shutdown Order for a VI Workload Domain with vSphere with Tanzu
| Shutdown Order | SDDC Component |
| 1 | Containerized customer workloads |
| 2 | Find out the location of the vSphere with Tanzu virtual machines * |
| 3 | vSphere Cluster Services virtual machines in the VI workload domain * |
| 4 | vCenter Server for the VI workload domain * |
| 5 | Supervisor Cluster Control Plane virtual machines |
| 6 | Tanzu Kubernetes cluster control plane virtual machines |
| 7 | Tanzu Kubernetes cluster worker node virtual machines |
| 8 | Harbor virtual machines |
| 9 | NSX Edge nodes in the VI workload domain * |
| 10 | NSX Manager nodes for the VI workload domain * |
| 11 | vSAN and ESXi hosts in the VI workload domain * |
2, Shutdown Management Cluster
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Shutdown Order for the Management Domain
| Shutdown Order | SDDC Component |
| 1 | Aria Automation Cluster |
| 2 | Aria Operations for Logs |
| 3 | Aria Operations Analytics cluster and remote collectors |
| 4 | Clustered Workspace ONE Access* (VIDM) |
| 5 | VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle™ |
| 6 | Site Recovery Manager for the management domain |
| 7 | vSphere Replication for the management domain |
| 8 | NSX Edge nodes for the management domain * |
| 9 | NSX Manager nodes for the management domain * |
| 10 | SDDC Manager * |
| 11 | vSphere Cluster Services, vCenter Server for the management domain, management ESXi hosts and vSAN * |
Starting Up VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Stack
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1. Start the Management Domain
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Startup Order for the Management Domain
| Startup Order | SDDC Component |
| 1 | Management ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, vSphere Cluster Services, and vSAN * |
| 2 | SDDC Manager * |
| 3 | NSX Manager nodes for the management domain * |
| 4 | NSX Edge nodes for the management domain * |
| 5 | vSphere Replication for the management domain |
| 6 | Site Recovery Manager for the management domain |
| 7 | VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle* |
| 8 | Clustered Workspace ONE Access* |
| 9 | Aria Operations Analytics cluster and remote collectors |
| 10 | Aria Operations for Logs |
| 11 | Aria Automation Cluster |
2. Start a Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain with vSphere with Tanzu
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Startup Order for a VI Workload Domain with vSphere with Tanzu
| Startup Order | SDDC Component |
| 1 | ESXi hosts and vSAN for the VI workload domain |
| 2 | vCenter Server for the VI workload domain |
| 3 | vCLS virtual machines |
| 4 | NSX Manager nodes for the VI workload domain |
| 5 | NSX Edge nodes for the VI workload domain |
| 6 | Started automatically after you start vCenter Server and vCLS, and NSX for the VI workload domain. Supervisor Control Plane virtual machines Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster control plane virtual machines Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster worker virtual machines Harbor registry virtual machines |
| 7 | Containerized customer workloads |
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