Shutdown one of Supervisor Clusters within the same vCenter

Products

• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Issue/Introduction

- There are multiple Supervisor Clusters enabled in the same vCenter.

- For maintenance purposes, one of the Supervisor Clusters needs to be shut down

Environment

TKGS

Resolution

1. Stop vCenter's WCP service

service-control --stop wcp

2. Following the document to shut down Pods/VMs running inside the target cluster.
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-5-2-and-earlier/5-2/vmware-cloud-foundation-operations-5-2/vcf-shutdown-and-startup-operations/vcf-shutdown-operations/shut-down-the-vsphere-with-tanzu-workload-domain-operations.html#GUID-38BA4D29-A7B0-4E52-9D83-F65AFD481465-en

3. Start the vCenter's WCP service

service-control --start wcp