Are you using a self-hosted deployment? If so, this may be the issue that's been reported for almost a year now that results in an inability to shutdown cleanly due to sanlock leases being held which result in watchdog timeouts that cause a system to reboot instead of shutdown. See for example: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024652.html I still experience this with 3.5.1. When I poweroff my machine I have to physically be there to hit the power switch when it tries to reboot after the wdmd watchdog timeout. I notice during shutdown that the storage domains fail to unmount. -Bob