APC SMT1500I vs ESXi 5.5

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Hi

I have few question's regarding APC Smart-UPS 1500VA LCD 230V SMT1500I
http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SMT1500I&total_watts=1000

According to below pdf documents:

http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/SJHN-7AYQNP/SJHN-7AYQNP_R44_EN.pdf
http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/ASTE-6Z5QEV/ASTE-6Z5QEV_R40_EN.pdf

1. Does anyone test that APC UPS with latest VMware ESi 5.5 ?
2. "Please note APC do not support the free version of VMware ESXi. A VMware license is required"

What it mean's ?

ESXi with registered free version on vmware.com ? or esxi on 60 day evaluation mode ?

Im waiting for replay, this is very confused situation for me and ruin little bit my plans :)
 
It means you have to have, at a minimum, an Essentials license for the host as that opens up the APIs allowing for the UPS to works its magic; the Free license is completely locked down so it will not work with the UPS.

As for ESXi 5.5, so far both VMware nor APC haven't mentioned support for vSphere 5.5. You should email APC support to see what their stance is.
 
It means you have to have, at a minimum, an Essentials license for the host as that opens up the APIs allowing for the UPS to works its magic; the Free license is completely locked down so it will not work with the UPS.

As for ESXi 5.5, so far both VMware nor APC haven't mentioned support for vSphere 5.5. You should email APC support to see what their stance is.


Don't support.


I was looking at the same thing but was recommended to look into Eaton UPS instead by a couple of retail sources. I have no personal experience but I was also provided the following link
http://powerquality.eaton.com/UK/About-Us/News-Events/2013/PR200913.asp?cx=101
Might be a worthy alternative unless you have to get APC


I'm thinking about Cyper Power UPS

Any one has any experience with Cyber Power UPS and ESXi 5.5 in free registered license ?
 
I just use apcupsd, and pass the usb/serial connection into 1 vm as the master (the one that will stay on the longest on battery power), then all other vm's read status from that one machine, and shut down according to the their specific settings. The hardware itself doesn't' have any auto shutdown though.
 
The only way to shut the host down (that I know of) is to use powerchute network shutdown on the vMA which isn't brilliant imo and requires a management card in the UPS but does work fine with 5.5 and unless there's a restriction on the vMA or PCNS needing a vsphere license it should be "free".

I've resigned myself to shutting down the guests and then storage and let the host just get killed when the UPS shuts down, doesn't seem to hurt it although not exactly ideal i'll admit.
 
I have powerchute with network managment card running in a vMA that will shutdown the host using free ESXi 5.1 I used http://blog.rebelit.net/295

I am also running Eaton IPP with a local USB UPS, it is also running in a vMA and it is on ESXi 5.5 free.
 
My assumption is that it would work fine, I am using the same script to shutdown the host with my IPP setup as with powerchute from what I remember and that is working fine on ESXi 5.5.

I have not upgraded the host running powerchute due to it being 600 miles away.
 
I pass my usb port to a VM guest that runs powerchute. I have ssh enabled for ESXi host, then have ssh script run from the guest that runs powerchute that issues the ESXi shutdown command, this will shutdown all vm correctly before shutting down the host machine. Note you do need all guests to have vmware tools installed so that esx can shut them down.

This does have a security issue of course in that the one vm guest has to have ssh access to the host, so I would not do this anywhere that if the machine is compromised I could lose my job. :).
 
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