[Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?

[Lee Damon]

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.

nomad

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:13 PM Bart J. Smit <bart at smits.co.uk> wrote:

> What about the REST API to do a graceful shutdown of your VM’s and the
> vCenter appliance:
> https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7/vsphere-automation-rest
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> Bart…
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> *From:* Lee Damon <nomad at ee.washington.edu>
> *Sent:* 14 May 2020 20:29
> *To:* Bart J. Smit <bart at smits.co.uk>
> *Cc:* nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?
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> Thanks Bart. Unfortunately "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. :(
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> We need vCenter support, as well.
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> nomad
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> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM Bart J. Smit <bart at smits.co.uk> wrote:
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> This shuts down the hosts directly (by-passing vCenter)
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> http://rene.margar.fr/2012/05/client-nut-pour-esxi-5-0/
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> in spite of the title, it works for ESXi 6 and 7 as well
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> Bart…
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> *From:* Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser-bounces+bart=
> smits.co.uk at alioth-lists.debian.net> *On Behalf Of *Lee Damon
> *Sent:* 14 May 2020 16:53
> *To:* nut-upsuser Mailing List <nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> *Subject:* [Nut-upsuser] NUT control of vCenter & vServer?
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> Is anyone using NUT to signal/control vCenter and vServer (6.x) for
> shutdown when batteries are getting low? Any recommendations?
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> We've found
> https://4sysops.com/archives/startup-and-shutdown-a-vmware-cluster-with-powercli-and-powershell/ but
> I'd prefer to do this from the master (which is running CentOS 8) and not
> pollute it by installing PS on it.
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> thanks,
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> nomad
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