VMware ESXi - Suspend virtual machines if host shutdown?

[walnuts]

Hi,

I've tried searching google for answer but haven't come across anything useful.

Does anyone know if VMware ESXi can suspend all virtual machines if host is shutdown?

 

[walnuts]

Not if there is a failure. Looking at situations where UPS has triggered shutdown or someone has shutdown host by mistake and there are still virtual machines running on the host.

Hyper-V has feature where you can configure what will happen to running virtual machines when host is shutdown. This allows you to suspend or shutdown running virtual machines before host shuts itself down.

Anything like this in ESXi?

 

[walnuts]

Yes you can script via Perl from APC UPS's to trigger the hypervisor to shutdown / suspend VM's. See my picture above, this is the same feature as Hyper-V. That is a screengrab from an ESXi box.

Script wise it's probably best to head over to the VMware forums and ask. I grabbed mine from there IIRC.

Thanks for your help. I'll look into setting up Perl script.