In the event of an extended power outage, I used to be able to gracefully shutdown the VMs and ESXi in version 5.0 (I thought the free version too). It doesn't look like I can do this the same way in 5.1?
I had an APC UPS and PowerChute installed on a Windows VM. When PowerChute detected the power loss, it was setup to run this script via the vSphere CLI:
@START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin\vicfg-hostops.pl" --username=root --password=********* --server=192.168.39.20 --operation shutdown --force
Vsphere was set to "shutdown guest" and automatic startup. This would gracefully shutdown the VMs and then ESXi before the power was lost.
Now, with 5.1 - I am getting this error: "Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation. Fault detail: RestricedVersionFault"
Is there a way to have PowerChute run a script to gracefully shut down ESXi 5.1 free?