Hoping that I can find someone in Melbourne (Australia), or even just anyone in Australia, who is using ESXi 5.0 with Eaton UPS and has successfully configured Eaton's virtual appliance to automatically shutdown VMs and ESXi hosts in the event of a power failure.
I have gotten as far as:
-- downloading and installing the Eaton VA
-- configuring the VA via its web interface
---- node settings (UPS, 2 x ESXi hosts)
---- power source (test Eaton UPS)
---- virtualisation settings
---- shutdown settings
Am using two test ESXi hosts, each running two test VMs.
I thought I had everything configured like this:
-- ESX1 to go into shutdown after 300 seconds on battery
-- ESX2 to go into shutdown after 60 seconds on battery
---- both were set in the VA to shutdown VMs as well as the ESXi host
Unfortunately, when I tested this, what happened was:
-- nothing after 60 seconds on battery
-- nothing after 300 seconds on battery
-- no VMs were shutdown on either ESX1 or ESX2
-- neither ESX1 nor ESX2 hosts themselves shut down
-- after a while the IPM v1.26 virtual appliance shut itself down (!)
-- a few minutes later I ran out of battery and both ESX1 and ESX2 crashed
I have missed something really obvious and critical. Hoping someone who has gotten this working with ESXi 5.0 can help my work out what bit I have missed, because I have been looking through all different kinds of documentation and am just not making any headway with it.