PowerChute 2.2.4 - vMA on ESXi

Anonymous user · ‎2021-06-30

Hi All,
I've not seen any information regarding my question. If its a duplicate thread, please accept my apologies. Thanks

I am testing PowerChute 2.2.4 on one ESXi 4.1 host and vMA 4.1. Everything works just fine and I can access the PowerChute Network Shutdown site.
My question is that since vMA resides on the ESXi host, in case of power outage host will start shutting down all VMs residing on that host. Once vMA is shutdown, how PowerChute is going to communicate with the host?
Also, in the cluster environment – what is the best practise? Install one instance of vMA/PowerChute on each host?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

BillP · ‎2021-06-30

I apologize if it wasn't that successful. I just had a customer thru the forum that also has some questions with scripting. One thing that he did earlier is to make sure that the script is run by the Administrator account. Have you tried this?

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Anonymous user · ‎2021-06-30

Hi All,
I've not seen any information regarding my question. If its a duplicate thread, please accept my apologies. Thanks

I am testing PowerChute 2.2.4 on one ESXi 4.1 host and vMA 4.1. Everything works just fine and I can access the PowerChute Network Shutdown site.
My question is that since vMA resides on the ESXi host, in case of power outage host will start shutting down all VMs residing on that host. Once vMA is shutdown, how PowerChute is going to communicate with the host?
Also, in the cluster environment – what is the best practise? Install one instance of vMA/PowerChute on each host?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

BillP · ‎2021-06-30

I apologize if it wasn't that successful. I just had a customer thru the forum that also has some questions with scripting. One thing that he did earlier is to make sure that the script is run by the Administrator account. Have you tried this?