phyregold wrote:
I'm trying to conservate as much power as possible and I work remotely from my servers.
Does WOL only work for the VM inside of ESXI enviroment or can it control the box itself? If you can WOL the box itself, how do you do so within the vsphere 4.0 console? Thanks!
This has been touch and go for a few years. I dabbled in it, it has many bugs, plus you need special commands to give a Server / VM to "wake" it up..it's not a simple ping request to bring up a server..
There were many bugs, some people claimed to have it working, I never could. It's not a big deal for us.. however your power saving is via the host not the VM's. VM's don't actually take energy to run.. if they are idle. the physical host is what occupies energy, so what you should concentrate on is setting up vCenter with the power management.. that's what you want.
WOL is great for times when a server goes down (like a power outage) and doesn't come back.. other than that, I think it's basically zero value. We have remote access cards and other ways to reach servers, WOL is pretty much useless anymore..
