"System Default" Power Controls

[matt-brewster]

Can someone tell me where I set the default power controls on my ESX servers?

If I go into a VM, Edit Settings, Options tab, VMware Tools I can specify what happens when I press the Stop, Pause or Reset buttons. Currently they are all set to "System Default" (i.e. Stop is a hard shutdown). Rather than changing each VM individually, I must be able to change the defaults somewhere.

I've looked everywhere, it's bound to be under my nose...

Thanks

Matt

[pldoolittle]

Ditto.

[RParker]

Finally! I am not invisible! I have the same problem, great post!

I would like to know this as well . . . . .

[acr]

good question Matt, now im not 100% sure and it may be from the sdk tool kit, i do recall doing this under ESX2.x by editing the .vmx file, i guess the same as changing the advance settings, but it would be on a per VM basis..

[esiebert7625]

There must be a source for the vmx file when a VM is created. Maybe there is a file somewhere on the ESX server that is used for this. I'd be interested in knowing this.

[acr]

yeah, just had a quick look but nothing obvious, it may be under my nose as well, i notice matt has a few posts arround at the moment, would be nice if we could resolve one of them for him...

[esiebert7625]

Yeah I poked around also, I like solving mysteries, have not seen anything though. The helps say this...

"Use System Default follows system settings; the current value of the system settings is shown in parentheses. "

[acr]

me too, i like the "source for the .vmx" statement.... ok im hooked now..

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acr

[esiebert7625]

Well I searched the file system for the text "powerType" which is in the vmx file and came up with these matches. It's possibly the vmware-vmx file which is a binary file and not really editable.

\[root@lucifer etc]# cd /usr

\[root@lucifer usr]# find -name '*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep "powerType" /

Binary file ./lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/VMware/VmPerl/VmPerl.so matches

Binary file ./lib/vmware/bin-debug/vmware-vmx matches

Binary file ./lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx matches

Binary file ./lib/vmware/perl/control.tar matches

Binary file ./lib/vmware/hostd/libplatform.so matches

Binary file ./lib/vmware/hostd/libvmsvc.so matches

Binary file ./lib/vmware/hostd/vmware-hostd matches

\[root@lucifer usr]# '.vmx''.vmx'

[acr]

I was wondering if the sdk tool kit could script something for when you create a VM..

[kix1979]

I'm sure there is a way via the VMware tools door and SDK.

[admin]

I pinged ESX product management on this to get an answer.

[pldoolittle]

I hear what you guys are saying with the scripts, but it certainly reads as a global default that can be changed for all VM's unless overridden locally at a particular VM. If that's not the case, and it must be edited on a per VM basis, VMware sure has done a poor job of marking/identifying the controls.

[matt-brewster]

Glad to see other people are as perplexed as me..!

Thanks for requesting info, looking forward to the VMware response.

[MXP1L0T]

Any responses yet? This solution would solve a lot of admin that gets missed at a lot of my clients.

I took a look in SQL but I'm not a SQL guy and didn't see anything that looked like this setting. :smileymischief:

[Jason_Ambrose]

Anyone ever find a solution for this issue?

[fonzie]

Anyone got this solved? How to change default behaviour?

[wolfwolf]

I'm looking for a solution to the same problem, anyone?

Thanks.