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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What about the REST API to do a graceful shutdown of your VM’s</span> and the vCenter appliance<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">:
</span><a href="https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7/vsphere-automation-rest">https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7/vsphere-automation-rest</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bart…<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Lee Damon <nomad@ee.washington.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> 14 May 2020 20:29<br>
<b>To:</b> Bart J. Smit <bart@smits.co.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Bart. Unfortunately "<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#373737;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The VIB module does not comply with the security recommendations imposed by VMWare. You
lose VMWare support by installing this package." This pretty much rules out this option. :( </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#373737;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">We need vCenter support, as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#373737;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">nomad</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM Bart J. Smit <<a href="mailto:bart@smits.co.uk">bart@smits.co.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This shuts down the hosts directly (by-passing vCenter)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://rene.margar.fr/2012/05/client-nut-pour-esxi-5-0/" target="_blank">http://rene.margar.fr/2012/05/client-nut-pour-esxi-5-0/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">in spite of the title, it works for ESXi 6 and 7 as well<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Bart…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser-bounces+bart=<a href="mailto:smits.co.uk@alioth-lists.debian.net" target="_blank">smits.co.uk@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lee Damon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 May 2020 16:53<br>
<b>To:</b> nut-upsuser Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org" target="_blank">nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Is anyone using NUT to signal/control vCenter and vServer (6.x) for shutdown when batteries are getting low? Any recommendations? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We've found <a href="https://4sysops.com/archives/startup-and-shutdown-a-vmware-cluster-with-powercli-and-powershell/" target="_blank">https://4sysops.com/archives/startup-and-shutdown-a-vmware-cluster-with-powercli-and-powershell/</a> but
I'd prefer to do this from the master (which is running CentOS 8) and not pollute it by installing PS on it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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