Hi everybody,

I would like to know if someone could give me a tutorial or a exemple of a procedure to shut down like 30 server to moov them in an other Room.

here is a list of servers i have:

2 DC (master & slave)

1 exchange Cluster

lot of aplication servers (26 more or less)

Thx by advance

If you have administrative rights on all of them then the command line shutdown -i -f will do the trick

Of course you should shutdown them in the right order:

Shutdown first the standalone servers (not in domain) if an application on another server doesn't need one of them.

Then shutdown all domain members servers and the DC slave.

Then shutdown the dc master.

The power on the dc master and power on all other in whatever order you want.

not sure how your OU structure is but this may work if you wanted to do it quick and painlessly

http://lazynetworkadmin.com/content/view/36/6/

Switch of the mains... Done

hopefully your batter backup would pick that up.. but then if configured properly should safely shut down your servers. Sounds like a long time consuming process....

Edited September 29, 200619 yr by chilifrei64