Shutting down a vmware cluster

[Spiff_21_apc]

This was originally posted on APC forums on 2/3/2012

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I want to make sure that our vmware cluster, vill close down correctly, in case our UPS, A smart UPS 30, if it runs out of battery. After reading the guide on how to install PCNS, on a VMA, server i setup this, but found out that it only shuts down the hosts.

My problem is that there is no intrgration with vcenter so you cannot really set a shutdown order. This as i see it can leed to the mass migration away from the first host that is beeing shutdown, over to a second host, that is also in the middle of a shutdown. As i see it this is BAD, and could potential lead to corruption.

Question is how do i correctly setup powercute, or any other program to close down the vmware cluster.

Jakob Lundqvist

[david.grehan_at_apcc.com_apc · Accepted solution]

This was originally posted on APC forums on 6/14/2012

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Please see the following KBase article:

http://nam-en.apc.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11622/kw/HA