What Dell UPS managemet software setup to use for controlled shutdown?

Hi Thomas,

Glad I can still be of some use!  :-)

The best doc is the "Common Scenarios" one linked in my previous post, it's more linear in approach and only tells you what you need to know.  The UG's are quite extensive so easy to get lost.

You install the ULNM agent on each Hyper-V host, the VMs do not need an agent (phew that will save some time!).  You can then configure the ULNM agents directly through MUMC - add them in the Auto Discovery Menu by doing a range scan for the IP addreses of the hosts running the ULNM agents, then edit the settings in the "Node Settings" menu.   You can also make any UPS settings you want here too.   MUMC can be run on a Windows VM or a physical machine, it doesn't matter.

Finally you need to make some settings in the Hyper-V manager to tell it what to do with the VMs in the event that the OS receives a shutdown instruction.  ULNM makes this shutdown instruction if the UPS runs on battery for the prescribed period of time.  The effect is similar to clicking Start -> Shutdown.

If the UPS runs on battery long enough to initiate shutdown, the Hyper-V service controlls the VM response and does whatever it is instructed to do before allowing the host to safely shutdown.  

ULNM can launch either a shutdown event or a script, but not both at the same time (at last I'm 99% sure on this one).  So, leave the ULNM to shut down the Hyper-V agent and instead, use the MUMC console to manage initiation of a script.  Within MUMC you can go to System -> Modules Settings -> Edit Modules Settings.  Enable "Shutdown".  This will allow MUMC to do management of ULNM agents but also now enables MUMC to act as a shutdown agent in its own right.  It creates a new system menu on the left called "Shutdown".  Then in the shutdown settings, choose script.  Now you can launch any kind of script you like.

I'm not sure what SAN you're using, but below is an example script of how to handle a Dell EquaLogic system.  Maybe you'll find this useful, i hope so.  This can be saved in a .ps1 file and run from the UPS management software when needed.

Hope this is more useful information!!!!

Andy

# --cc @ 2012/04

# Shutting down EQL arrays

# DISCLAIMER HERE ....

# Customizing and executing this script is entirely at your own risk.

# Shutting down members is disruptive for initiators as it will take the volumes offline, so please make sure initiators are disconnected first.

# some vars for consistency

$myUser="grpadmin"

$myPwd="grpadmin"

$myGrpIP="172.28.12.120"

$myTestPool="maintenance"

$myTestMember="Aillen"

# Make sure we're having the PSTools loaded

Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\EqualLogic\bin\EqlPSTools.dll'

# Connecting to group over MgmtIP

Connect-EqlGroup -GroupAddress $myGrpIP -UserName $myUser -Password $myPwd

# Shutdown selective member

# to use this method, uncomment line below and adjust var parameters

# Stop-EqlMember -MemberName $myTestMember -Force

# Shutdown selective pool

# to use this method, uncomment line below and adjust var parameters

# Get-EqlMember | Where-Object {$_."StoragePoolName" -match ("$myTestPool")} | Select-Object "membername" | Stop-EqlMember -Force

# Shutdown ALL members in the group

# IMHO, this should only fit the bill for very small deployments with all members in the default pool where you just don't mind shutting them all down regardless...

# to use this method, uncomment line below

# Get-EqlMember | Select-Object "membername" | Stop-EqlMember -Force

# DEMO RUN

$demo = Get-EqlMember | Where-Object {$_."StoragePoolName" -match ("$myTestPool")} | Select-Object "membername"

Write-Host "I should have send shutdown commands to :`t" $demo