Since a couple of days i am troubling with this topic. i have a production environment with vcenter, esxi vmsphere 5.1 hosts, netapp storages, many virtual machines and a couple of Eaton Powerware 9130 UPS devices.
my goal is to shutdown every machine during a power outage. I found out that Eaton developed 3 applications for this duty. (Network Shutdown Module, Intelligent Power Protector and Intelligent Power Manager).
So I started with NSM. I installed NSM on vMA (Virtual Management Assistent) and I configured the shutdown of the whole esxi host with shutdownESXi.pl. It worked. But I also have to shutdown my NetApp storages, so IPM was what I needed.
I installed IPM 1.30 on a test windows machine since I won't test around in a production environment. Normally 3 netapp storages are connected to the network, but IPM finds only 1.
HA Pair:
1. Storage: FAS3140 (8.1.2P1 7-Mode)
2. Storage: FAS3140 (8.1.2P1 7-Mode)
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3. Storage: FAS2040 (8.1.2P1 7-Mode)
Storage 1 and 2 are in HA Pair mode, and Storage 3 is standalone. IPM only finds the 3rd one and not all. Why so?
On another environment IPM was also not able to find all the storages below:
HA Pair:
4.Storage FAS2240-2 (8.1.2P2 7-Mode)
5.Storage FAS2240-2 (8.1.2P2 7-Mode)
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6.Storage FAS2240-4 (8.1.2P2 7-Mode)
again, only listed the standalone storage.
That's my first problem. The other problem is, IPM seems not to be able to shutdown the whole ESXi host. If I send a shutdown test from my ups, my IPM sends a command to the ESXi host to shutdown all virtual machines. All virtual machines orderly shutdown but not the ESXi host.
IPM is deployed as a virtual machine in the ESXI itself.
I also tried IPM v1.28 with vMA, it is also not shutting down the ESXi. On the other hand, IPP is able to shutdown the ESXi. Strange.
And this is my ESXi config in IPM
Remote Maintenance: Disabled
Maintenance Timer: -1
Remote Shutdown: Enabled
Remote Shutdown of the Virtual Machines: Enabled
Power Source: 192.168.100.101 (Eaton 9130)
Load Segment: Master Output
Master - Shutdown duration: 120 second(s)
Master - Shutdown after value: 240 second(s)
Another strange problem is, if I trigger a shutdown event and all virtual machines shutdown, I am not able to start my IPM, it is always rebooting. Somewhere in the ESXi the shutdown process seems to be stuck or something :|
Further details: I am not using a free license on my esxi hosts.
Thanks for your help advance