shutting down ESXi node gracefully

[gkman]

Hi,

We have a test site with a single ESXI host, that is still under construction. Sometimes workers on site need to power off the server to work on the electricity. Since they don't have access to the server itself, they press the power button. We would like that when this happens all VM's will shutdown properly and only then will the host will power down. Is this possible to achieve? 

Edit-
I know that it  possible to configure the machines to shutdown gracefully before the host- my real question is towards triggering the process with the power button

[Duncan Epping]

technically it is possible. I have seen people replacing the poweroff symlink which is under /bin and add a script that powers off ALL VMs followed by a graceful shutdown of the host. But I am sure this is not supported.

I think this is a valid feature request though.