<div dir="ltr">That's certainly on the list of options. I'm doing data gathering right now to see what options there are. I'd prefer not to rashly decide to run off in a direction only to discover this is already a Solved Problem. <div><br></div><div>nomad</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:13 PM Bart J. Smit <<a href="mailto:bart@smits.co.uk">bart@smits.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>What about the REST API to do a graceful shutdown of your VM’s</span> and the vCenter appliance<span>:
</span><a href="https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7/vsphere-automation-rest" target="_blank">https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7/vsphere-automation-rest</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bart…<span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Lee Damon <<a href="mailto:nomad@ee.washington.edu" target="_blank">nomad@ee.washington.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 14 May 2020 20:29<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org" target="_blank">nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Bart. Unfortunately "<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,55,55);border:1pt none windowtext;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><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,55,55);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">We need vCenter support, as well.</span><u></u><u></u></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" target="_blank">bart@smits.co.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This shuts down the hosts directly (by-passing vCenter)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">in spite of the title, it works for ESXi 6 and 7 as well<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is anyone using NUT to signal/control vCenter and vServer (6.x) for shutdown when batteries are getting low? Any recommendations? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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