Right procedure to shutdown a Viprion system with vCMP

Hi there,

I got a Viprion with two blades, vCMP and several guests, and I wonder which is the recommended procedure to shutdown the whole system.

I don't know if it's enough with a "clsh shutdown -h now" at vCMP level or I should to do that same command in each guest before doing it in the vCMP system.

As an alternative to doing a shutdown of each guest, I've read about using tmsh to change the state of all guests to provisioned before doing the shutdown of the vCMP system. Is this the preferred procedure instead of doing a "clsh shutdown" from inside the guest?

Would it be differences between doing a shutdown on the guest or deprovisioning it from vCMP on boot time? I guess that if I deprovision a guest before shutting down the vcmp system, when I boot the system, the guest will be in deprovisioned state and I'll have to deploy it again, right?

If I do a shutdown in the guest before the shutdown in the vcmp system, on boot time, what would be the guest state?

I have to define the shutdown and boot procedures for a maintenance stop on our data center and I don't know which procedure would be the better.

Thanks a lot.