ESXI and UPC's

I'm running ESXI in a production environment and was wondering if anyone has been able to get a UPC to communicate with it to tell it to shutdown incase of a poweroutage.

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tiersten

You can get network connected UPS units.

qwertyiop

tiersten wrote: »

You can get network connected UPS units.

Do you have an example? And how will it interact with the ESXi environment?

tiersten

qwertyiop wrote: »

Do you have an example?

APC UPS Network Management Cards

qwertyiop wrote: »

And how will it interact with the ESXi environment?

Install the UPS agent into a VM or standalone server that will issue commands to VC to shutdown.

JDMurray

If would be nice if there was a UPS agent that could run as a daemon directly in BusyBox and communication with the UPS over a serial or USB port. I assume that VMs can be controlled from within BusyBox, but I'm not sure.

tiersten

Use apcupsd and the VI Perl toolkit. Using apcupsd and the RCLI VM should work as well if you don't mind it actually being inside a VM.