All,

With VUM4 there doesn't seem to be any support for Scanning or Remediation tasks to take hosts in the Cluster out of Standby.

I am looking for advice from others on how they have handled this.  We have hundreds of hosts that might shutdown during the night as backups are SAN based, so client loads across the infrastructure drop to minimal levels, and our Maintenance Windows are of course in the middle of the night.

The best answer I can sadly come up with is to disable DPM, Power On all the Standby Hosts and wait for them to be available.  Scan and then Remediate, and once this is completed turn on DPM and allow it to Standby hosts again.

This seems quite time consuming waiting for potentially so many hosts to Power On before even attempting to proceed with the work, seems it would have been better for VMWare to build in a Power On feature with VUM4 to work with DPM.

Thank you for any advice.

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