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ITGuy24
Asked: 2009-11-18 06:14:38 +0800 CST

PowerChute for VMware ESX4

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I am looking for a free way of installing PowerChute for VMWare. The 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 Linux versions do not support VMWare ESX even though I think prior versions did.

APC is now charging $100 for the install CD which I think is a joke considering the price of our Symmetra UPS. VMWare support should be free.

Edit: I see someone voted this question to be closed, so to be clear i am looking for a free and legal way of getting PowerChute support for VMWare, by either using an older version or a custom script.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl

    You need apcupsd to monitor the UPS, VMware vMA 4.0 (apcupsd and perl script run on this VM), and licensed ESXi.

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  2. I was able to download both the Powerchute Business edition, and the powerchute network shutdown installs from APC's site for free. This is the link to the network shutdown component.

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  3. Zypher - Please see this page http://blog.mwpreston.net/?s=poweroff. He has a great write up and some powerCLI which I've used in a couple of environments. Might require a bit of tweaking to get to do exactly as you want but hasn't let me down yet.

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