Installation On A Vmware Esxi Server - Dell PowerEdge UPS 500T Installation And Configuration Manual

Installation on a VMware ESXi Server

This guide describes the installation and configuration of the Dell UPS Management Software on a
VMware ESXi Server.
The Dell UPS Management Software agent cannot be installed on the hypervisor system because
VMware ESXi does not have an administrative console for hypervisor. However, the software can be
installed on VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA) 1.0 or on vSphere Management
Assistant (vMA) 4.x to manage the shutdown of VMware ESXi hosts (see Figure 117). You can configure
the ESXi to safely and orderly suspend or shutdown guest operating systems by configuring the ESXi
hypervisor. This allows one Dell Software agent on one guest operating system (VIMA/vMA).
Dell UPS Management Software allows you to connect a 3.x or 4.x VMware ESXi with a UPS through the
Network Management Card.
The software notifies the VMware server of power events or UPS alerts with pop-up broadcast
information on the console. It also safely shuts down the VMware ESXi server and the guest operating
system.
Before the VMware ESXi system shuts down, use the shutdownESXi.sh and shutdownESXi41.sh scripts
to shut down the guest operating system (see step 8 on page 127).
All operations were tested on a VMware server with two guest operating systems [Windows Small
Business Server (SBS) 2003 and Red Hat] when certain conditions existed, such as:
• UPS battery is low
• Battery backup time is reached
• Battery discharge time is reached
Tested operations include:
• Safe shut down of the VMware server
• Safe shut down of the guest operating system
• Notifications of power events or UPS alerts to the VMware server
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