I know you can auto power on a VM when the ESX servers gets restarted, but I'm looking for a solution to essentially keep them powered on all the time.
I use Pano Logic with a 1-1 vm to Pano device. We have to have static IP's on all our vm's, so I am limitied to certian options.
Pano has a feature that in a device based collection they will power on the VM's if they are shutdown. I want to move to a user-assigned collection and am being told there is no longer an auto-power on feature.
Is there any way to configure vSphere to auto-power on a VM if it gets shutdown by the end user?
I do see a potential maint. issue of "how can I maintain the VM if it never powers off." I am hoping there is a solution to that 🙂
Thanks,
Dan
you can give a try to schedule task...
What is the Guest Os are you running and which version of ESX/ESXi server are you running?
How are using accessing the VM(vSphere Client or any other method)
With ESXi 5.0 U1 automatic start up option is disabled
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/free-esxi-hypervisor-auto-start-breaks-with-50-update-1.html
Don't know about that...I'll have to read up on that.
Thanks!
Auto starting Windows XP is what I am concerned with.
We are on ESX 4.1, but will be moving to ESXi 5 within 6-24 months.
is it not posisble for you to create Windows GPO and restrict users from shuttind down the system. If users are accessing the system using vSphere Client you could also create a role and restrict user to Power OFF/Shutdown/Reset
I did think about a GPO, but wanted to explore other options as Pano had this built-in.
But I may have to re-explore this.