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ESXi v8 (running 2 vms), one of the vm's is the firewall. This is an edge device in a medical xray trailer. The trailer's generator gets powered on in the morning & turned off at night. Any good idea's on how I deal with daily ESXi shutdown & power-on?

Hi all I'm running Solaris 11.3 on a Tyan S7012 LGA1366 motherboard with 2 x X5670 2.93ghz CPUs and 72GB of ECC RAM. I just got the Tyan mobo in the last few days. It works fine except for one annoyance: when I shutdown the server (shutdown -i5), it won't power down. It gets to "Syncing...