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@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Because Harvester is built on top of Kubernetes and uses etcd as its database, t
 
 For admin users, you can click **Enable Maintenance Mode** to evict all VMs from a node automatically. It will leverage the `VM live migration` feature to migrate all VMs to other nodes automatically. Note that at least two active nodes are required to use this feature.
 
+If you want to force a shutdown of a VM instead of migrating it to another node, add the label `harvesterhci.io/maintain-force-shutdown` and the value `true` to those VMs.
+
 ![node-maintenance.png](/img/v1.2/host/node-maintenance.png)
 
 ## Cordoning a Node