Smart UPS 1500VA with VmWare Server?

[Anonymous user]

Hello!

First post here 🙂

I have a HP Proliant ML370 running Windows 2003 Server Entperprise. Vmware Server 1.08 is installed at the host and on this machine i am running two virtual machines. 1 Windows 2003 SQL server and 1 Windows 2003 Webserver.

To the ML370 there is a Smart UPS 1500VA connected. I have now installed Powerchute Business Edition Agent at the host (not on the virtual machines). What do i need to install on my virtual machines to also make them aware of my UPS? IN case of a powerfailure i would like my Windows 2003 VmWare Server host to gracefully shutdown my 2 virtual machines and then shutdown itself. Is that possible with my current setup?

Thanks in advance.

/Rickard

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[Anonymous user · Accepted solution]

Comment myself 🙂

I created a batfile and placed it in C:\Program Files\APC\PowerChute Business Edition\agent\cmdfiles\apcvmshut.bat. It look like this:

@START "" "C:\Program Files\APC\PowerChute Business Edition\agent\cmdfiles\vmshutdownweb.bat"
@START "" "C:\Program Files\APC\PowerChute Business Edition\agent\cmdfiles\vmshutdownsql.bat"

apcvmshut.bat starts the two batfiles i refer to above (vmshutdownweb.bat and vmshutdownsql.bat) and these files look like this:

vmshutdownsql.bat

cd c:\program files\vmware\vmware server\
call vmware-cmd "D:\Virtual Machines\SQL\sqlserver.vmx" stop SQLSERVER

vmshutdownweb.bat

cd c:\program files\vmware\vmware server\
call vmware-cmd "D:\Virtual Machines\SQL\webserver.vmx" stop WEBSERVER

Then from the Powerchute webinterface (Business edition) i select Command File Name: apcvmshut.bat and set Command File Execution Duration to 30 seconds and OS Shutdown Delay to 90 seconds.

Havent tried this yet but hopefully it will work :). The BAT-files work because i have tried them manually. Anynone else have tried this something similar to this and have comments?

Thanks.

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