How to Make Schedule Shutdown in Proxmox

First we can configure virtual machines and containers to start up and shutdown with the host.

Select The Vm -> go to option tab

enable the -> start up boot to yes

next configure the start/shutdown order

Start order = 1or any (order to start)
Start up delay = 60 (sec interval between two node start)
Shutdwon timeout = 60 (sec interval between two node shutdown)

Second We go to crontab for schedule task execution command.

It consists of five parts

1. minute
2. hour
3. day of month
4. month
5. day of week

Here is an illustration

# crontab -l     -> to list out the crontab schedule

# crontab -e     -> to create a new crontab schedule

# crontab -r     -> to remove all crontab schedule



# m h  dom mon dow   command
11 16 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

 It should shutdown your machine at every day 4:11 PM