Copyright (c) 2013 Aaron B. Russell [email protected] All rights reserved.
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Bug reports, improvement requests, etc all welcome at https://github.com/arussell/esxi-safe-shutdown Better yet, fork the project and send me a pull request!
Inspired by http://thehelpfulhacker.net/2012/11/02/graceful-ups-shutdowns-for-your-esxi-server-with-centos/
Remember: ESXi runs sh not bash, so don't do anything fancy that needs bash or it won't work