Network-management-card-assisted shutdown of hyperconverged infrastructure

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• selecting, by a shutdown agent operating in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment that uses a first HCI platform, a first set of shutdown instructions from a plurality of sets of shutdown instructions, each of the plurality of sets of shutdown instructions being supported for execution by a network management card (NMC) communicatively coupled with the HCI environment, the selected first set of the plurality of sets of shutdown instructions being configured to support shutdown processes compatible with the first HCI platform and at least a second set of the plurality of sets of shutdown instructions being configured to support shutdown processes compatible with a second HCI platform;
• sending the first set of shutdown instructions from the HCI environment to the NMC;
• and
• during a shutdown of the HCI environment after sending the first set of shutdown instructions to the NMC, sending a shutdown finalization instruction from the HCI environment to the NMC to finalize the shutdown,
• wherein the NMC is configured to finalize the shutdown, responsive to the shutdown finalization instruction, at least by executing the first set of shutdown instructions.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by a network management card (NMC) communicatively coupled with a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment that uses a first HCI platform, a selection of a first set of shutdown instructions from a plurality of sets of shutdown instructions, each of the plurality of sets of shutdown instructions being supported for execution by a network management card (NMC), the selected first set of the plurality of sets of shutdown instructions being configured to support shutdown processes compatible with the first HCI platform and at least a second set of the plurality of sets of shutdown instructions being configured to support shutdown processes compatible with a second HCI platform;
• after receiving the selection of the first set of shutdown instructions, detecting, by the NMC, that the HCI environment is performing a shutdown, wherein detecting that the HCI environment is performing a shutdown comprises receiving a shutdown finalization instruction from a virtual shutdown agent (VSA) operating in a virtual machine in the HCI environment;
• and
• finalizing the shutdown, by the NMC, at least by the executing the first set of shutdown instructions.