topic Re: VMWare APC UPS Network Shutdown in ESXi Discussions

VMWare APC UPS Network Shutdown

Dantech_IT — Mon, 25 May 2015 13:54:06 GMT

Hi Guys

We are installing a HP server running VMware with two VM's running server 2012. We have an APC smart UPS with network card and I would like to know how we can configure the APC software to first shutdown each VM correctly and then the physical sever.

Thanks

Re: VMWare APC UPS Network Shutdown

cykVM — Mon, 25 May 2015 19:58:36 GMT

Hi,

best approach is to use the virtaul aplliance provided by APC "PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.0 for Virtualization" (ESXi flavour), see: Software / Firmware

Configure the network card to your needs, e.g. give it a static IP which is reachble from inside the virtual appliance/VMWare.

Afterwards deploy the OVA/OVF included in the tar.gz in VMWare and copnfigure it afterwards on the console of the VM.

Thereafter a web interface for the appliance is up and running where you can configure your shutdown events.

Documentation and further information is found here: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SFPCNS40-V&tab=software

Only thing I'm not sure about is if v4.0 is already tested with VMWare 6, but generally it should work.

You anyway have to configure your host's startup/shutdown settings (according to the 2 Win 2012 VMs) for the appliance to work as expected.

cykVM

Re: VMWare APC UPS Network Shutdown

Dantech_IT — Thu, 28 May 2015 11:03:22 GMT

Thanks for the detailed reply.

We are currently using the free version of ESXI, would we be able to use the above method to shut down our VMs & host?

Re: VMWare APC UPS Network Shutdown

cykVM — Thu, 28 May 2015 11:36:37 GMT

Never tried myself, but I guess that won't work. I remember some scripted solution making use of PuTTY/plink, but can't find back the page right now. Maybe this helps: No Joke IT: Shut down ESXi 5.1 guest VMs and the host (free edition) via SSH - the easy way!

Here's another approach, but I'm not sure if this works with free license either: Graceful UPS shutdowns for your ESXi server with Centos | The Helpful Hacker

Re: VMWare APC UPS Network Shutdown

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