March 25, 201313 yr I have sucefully installed and running ESXi on this MB -> http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Pro4-M/?cat=Specifications Successfully passthrough my PCIe card.... ServeRAID-BR10i Adaptec 1430SA 2 internal SATA3 6.0 Gb/s ASMedia ASM1061 connectors Thanks to all who contribute ESXi knowledge and experience in this forum. I do have two things I think about how this will work in ESXi, an that is.. UPS Sleep (S3) and Wake on Lan (WOL) On my stock unraid I always use sleep (S3) and WOL ( sending magic packages) So my questions to you experts is [*]How will a UPS work when this is added to my ESXi server ? I like to secure the ESXi server and handle all my VM to safely shutdown or suspend if an case of emergency. How shall a USB be configured on a ESXi server? [*]S3 script, when the script sleep my ESXi unraid VM, can I wake it up with magic packeges? This is done to the MAC address, but that is now belong to my ESXi server 100% All Solid Capacitor Design Digi Power Design Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2800+(OC) 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 Slot, Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, CrossFireX™ PCIE Gigabit LAN Supports Intel® HD Graphics with Built-in Visuals Multi VGA Output options : D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI Combo Cooler Option (C.C.O.) 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec), Supports THX TruStudio™ Supports ASRock XFast RAM, XFast LAN, XFast USB, OMG, Internet Flash, No-K OC, On/Off Play, Dehumidifier, UEFI System Browser Supports Intel® Smart Connect, Intel® Rapid Start, Lucid Virtu Universal MVP Free Bundle : CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, ASRock MAGIX Multimedia Suite More info coming soon.....
March 25, 201313 yr Regarding #1, unfortunately ESXi requires a Serial cable for the host to talk to the UPS device, and the motherboard you bought doesn't have a serial port. What I've done is created a small ubuntu server VM that gets the usb connection for the UPS passed through to it. The OS runs apcupsd. and the disk is non-persistent (this is important). What happens when the power goes out: 1. Ubuntu apcupsd box notices power failure. 2- unRAID VM (also running apcupsd) notices this failure, waits 20 seconds and initiates a power down 3. Ubuntu apcupsd executes a power down script on ESXi via ssh 4. ESXi box begins powering off all but the ubuntu VM 5. Ubuntu apcupsd waits 5 minutes for power down, and then a signal is sent to turn the UPS off (to allow for ESXi to boot back up when the power is restored) The reason for having the ubuntu VM non-persistent is that it's not going to be cleanly shut down in the event of a power failure. I also have a backup of my ESXi (it's installed on a thumb drive) as it's also not being cleanly shut down. I've tested it and it works, and has successfully survived a few power outages. I may look into using a raspberry pi for this instead, as that won't add much power utilization, and I can cleanly shut ESXi down, now that I think about it.
April 16, 201313 yr there are special mini distro linux for EXSi only for UPS support Im use CyberPOwer UPS with default offer ready VMka for UPS support under EXSi - this even have WebGUI for managing UPS
April 16, 201313 yr Another alternative if you have a Windows VM on the ESXi server anyway is in my sig below - click the apcupsd on ESXi link. Re: magic packet/WOL, we have got no further than the other discussion that you were a part of. You need a licensed, paid version to access these features. As per post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26639.msg235371#msg235371
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