I've got a client I'm working on getting the paid version of ESXi, but they can be stingy. So far I've not found a way to get the network shutdown to work without a paid version of ESXi, but wondered if anyone here has had any success with that?
Would also think SmartUPS would be a better choice and you can fit with network card. Naturally more money but if your servers are at all important, that cost should be worth it. Also gives you more monitoring and alerting which might be useful at a remote site. You also need to assure sufficient runtime for all VMs to cleanly shutdown and then shutdown the host
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Shutdown logic:VM is running the UPS driver usbhid-ups which is responsible for the communication with UPS via USB. The upsd process connects to the UPS through the usbhid-ups driver and monitors the UPS state. The upsmon master process running on the same machine connects to the upsd and initiates the shutdown. ESXi host is running the 2nd instance of upsmon which also connects to the same VM upsd via internal network.
It seems like this is something that VMWare should have incorporated into the base hypervisor. It's basic and could offer a decent level of protection for users. The most common remedies I see now are USB passthrough to a dedicated VM, a network daemon approach or doing what I do; not configuring any automatic or battery shutdown...
We had a situation were a customer has a single VMware ESXi 5.5 host connected to an APC UPS and he required that the VMs and host shut down cleanly when a power failure occurred and the server was running on the UPS batteries.
When the UPS has a network module, like the APC AP9630, we deploy the PowerChute Network Shutdown for Virtualization Virtual Appliance and configure it to handle the virtual machine and host shutdown. When power is restored it also handles the start-up of the virtual machines.
"I have installed PCNS 2.2.4 into the vMA of an ESXi 4.1 server. It properly communicates with the associated NMC and performs correctly. However, it reports all the activities in Eastern Standard Time. I don't know where it's picking up that time zone and can't find anywhere to change it. In the vSphere client the time shows up correctly. Checking date inside the vMA from the CLI also shows the correct time and timezone. The date and time setting in the NMC is correct and is set to synch with NTP with correct time zone."
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