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Important! Excluded the vMA from VMware DRS to make sure it is always hosted on the same server (last server in the server list, see below) If you need help, check the vSphere 5.1 Documentation Center. When the vMA is deployed, boot it and configure it. The VMware Management Appliance will be provisioned in several minutes.Review the summary information and select Finish.select the datastore to store the virtual machine on and select the required disk format and network mapping.Select an inventory location and a resource pool where the virtual machine will be placed.Specify a name for the virtual machine.

Click Browse, select the OVF, and click Next two times and accept the licence agreement.

Select Deploy from a file or URL if you have already downloaded and unzipped the vMA virtual appliance package.

Select the host to which you want to deploy vMA in the inventory pane.

Connect to your VMware vSphere environment using the vSphere client software or the vSphere web client.

This is a basic VMware vSphere task, so I won’t bother you with details or screenshots but it comes down to this:

TCP ports 3052, 6547, 80 and UDP port 3052 need to be open on the network.įirst, install and configure the VMware Management Appliance on your VMware vSphere infrastructure.

APC PowerChute Network Shutdown (PCNS) 3.0.1.

To automate the shutdown of your virtual machines and ESXi hosts you will need:

You will have to automate the shutdown of the virtual machines and ESXi hosts and I found two ways to do this.ħ out of 10 UPS-es I come across are APC UPS-es and APC has some nice management software to automated server shutdown.

When you’re on-site and aware of the power failure you can shut everything down manually of course but what when you’re not there, in the evening, during weekends, etc.? You return in the morning finding that all your virtual machines are down and corrupted? Just enough to start a standby generator or just wait until the power returns.īut what when this takes too long and you must power down your virtual environment including all virtual machines? To buy us a little bit of time, you can add a UPS with enough capacity to power your servers, switches and storage for a limited period of time. You can create a cluster, use VMware HA or FT but when the power fails you’re done. When running a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere, you have multiple techniques to create a high available environment.