Greetings,
I recently got my church the free version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5.0a and installed it on a Dell Poweregde R710.
Last week there was a power outage. The R710 automatically powered back on and loaded ESXi 6.5, but all VMs were off and thus resources were unavailable that morning. I poked around the web GUI and found the place where I believe you set the priority of VMs to automatically turn back on. I gave priority to the two VMs and left. The following week another power outage occurred and the same thing happened - the R710 automatically powered back up, loaded ESXi 6.5, but the two VMs remained off - even after I set what I thought was the option to automatically power back on.
Question am I missing something? Is there a way to have VMs automatically power back on with Free-ESXi 6.5 or is that a feature that requires vCenter?
Thanks in advance.
Greetings,
Thank you to all who replied --
ranchuab,
I think you are under the assumption this is a full vCenter / vSphere environment, and that is not the case. This is the free, standalone ESXi 6.5 hyper-visor. I made a point to put in the subject line 'ESXi 6.5 Free' an an attempt to be pretty specific - but I do understand you are only trying to help and do appreciate your response.
I've included the steps (attached pngs) I've tried to follow in order to get the VMs to auto start. Are you able to verify this is what you did in your instance? Or maybe something similar?
I've taken into account the R710 being out of support for VMware 6.5 - and if that's what it is, then that's what it is. But I at least think it's worth a shot. But you are right, if the server model doesn't fall within the scope of VMware 6.5...then everything falls under the 'best effort' category.
Thanks all!
see below article -
https://theitbros.com/config-virtual-machine-auto-startup-vmware-esxi/
Thanks for your response ranchuab,
Can you confirm the steps you listed are for the free version of ESXi 6.5?
I was able to configure the Virtual machine Startup/Shutdown by connecting directly to a host that wasn't managed by vCenter.
I can't confirm that about the 'free' one, since that's not the one I have.
And you may want to think about the Dell/DellEMC build of ESXi.
Also keep in mind that, in addition to what has already been said, your R710 (and all 11th gen servers from Dell) do not officially support 6.5 although most seem to work fine. If you have issues, be aware of this and understand you may need to go back to 6.0 U3.
Greetings,
Thank you to all who replied --
ranchuab,
I think you are under the assumption this is a full vCenter / vSphere environment, and that is not the case. This is the free, standalone ESXi 6.5 hyper-visor. I made a point to put in the subject line 'ESXi 6.5 Free' an an attempt to be pretty specific - but I do understand you are only trying to help and do appreciate your response.
I've included the steps (attached pngs) I've tried to follow in order to get the VMs to auto start. Are you able to verify this is what you did in your instance? Or maybe something similar?
I've taken into account the R710 being out of support for VMware 6.5 - and if that's what it is, then that's what it is. But I at least think it's worth a shot. But you are right, if the server model doesn't fall within the scope of VMware 6.5...then everything falls under the 'best effort' category.
Thanks all!
That the process I displayed with screen shots is indeed the proper way to automatically turn on VMs under the free version of ESXi in the event of an outage/disruption.
I can also confirm this on ESXi 6.7.
