August 1, 201213 yr For those running UnRAID under ESXi: How do you use your APC UPS to cleanly shutdown UnRaid, other VMs on the ESXi and then ESXi its self during a power outage? Thanks,
August 1, 201213 yr I have APCUpsd running on a non-persistent VM (which has the APC USB cable passed through). The VM sends a command via SSH on the ESXi box. It shuts down all my hosts except the APCUpsd VM , and then turns the UPS off. It doesn't shut down the ESXi box gracefully. I tried using APC powerchute business edition on ESXi, but it doesn't seem to work with the USB cable I have. I'm running ESXi from a (backed up)flash drive, and after several reboots ESXi seems to come up properly. I wouldn't recommend this set up for anything other than a virtual server. I could issue a command to shut the ESXi server down gracefully, but then my ESXi server wouldn't come back online when the power returned, as there's no way to shut the UPS off after the ESXi server shut down.
August 1, 201213 yr Take a look at the link below it may help you. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.30
August 1, 201213 yr Author Take a look at the link below it may help you. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.30 Thanks; I thought it might be in that thread, but really didn't feel like potentially reading 47 pages and counting
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