Using Cyber Power's PowerPanel to shutdown vSphere Cluster

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Chandler

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I bought a OL3000RTXL2U and an expansion battery to be a UPS for my switches, storage box, and four ESXi hosts after being told PowerPanel can be configured to work with ESXi as an appliance.

I have installed their OVF template/ CentOS VM to run PowerPanel however it looks like one instance of PowerPanel can only shutdown one ESXi Host. How about a cluster...?
Is there a power down priority option for a HA cluster like there is a stand alone host? Each machine has a VM on it for balancing resources (not so much power, ha) and I can manually configure the host shutdown when logging into the vCenter server via the desktop client but as soon as a VM migrates it changes back to manual start up.

I also need to initiate shutdown for my storage box as well (FreeBSD/ NAS4Free).

Any suggestions?
 
Can it run a script? Write something in PowerShell to initiate the shutdown.
 
You would think so, but as of right now I am not sure where I would get it to run a script. I was hopping I would not need a separate client computer to run Windows or even Linux to run the scripts - but it is not a deal breaker. As of right now with the PowerPanel I do not see a place upload or select scripts. I will look into it more later. I bet there is a directory somewhere I can just dump the file in and it will magically appear.
 
fyi a friend of mine uses a rpi to monitor the ups using nut which then shuts down the other servers after 10min on battery, then when power is restored waits 10 min then restarts the servers using wake on lan.
 
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