What does Partially Powered Off mean and do you get charged when the VM is in this state?

 

When you shut down the guest OS from within a VM you may see a Partially Powered Off message like below:

 

In the above sceenshot the command shutdown -h now was used on a CentOS 7 OS CLI.

 

The VM is actually completely powered off as far as vCenter is concerned so no charges will be applied if using the Pay-As-You-Go model