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February 8th, 2013 06:00
Dell UPS Rack/Tower 2700W and a R710 ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.1 environment
Hello,
Been struggling with this for a while with reseller, but their answer is, "not possible".
Which I don't want to accept...
We have several sites with:
Dell UPS Rack/Tower 2700W
Dell R710 with ESX4 / ESXi 4.1
the UPS and ESX are configured nicely, when a poweroutage occurs after 15 minutes the VM's are brought down and finally the server is shut down.
My issue is with power restoration.
When the power is restored we can't get the ESX server to boot.
We are lead to believe that it is not possible to have the ESX server booted because the server was shutdown with a shutdown command, therefor it will not automatically boot upon power restoration.
Can someone please help me out with this as I can't accept that it is not possible to automatically boot the ESX server after power restoration.
Thank you for your comments!
Regards,
Roel
AndyMcDonald
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February 12th, 2013 02:00
Hi Roel,
Good to see that the UPS shutdown software is working well. In order for the server to automatically restart following a UPS shutdown event you just need to set the server BIOS status to "always on". It sounds like you have it set to "last known state" or similar right now. When you set the BIOS to "always on" the server will sense when the UPS turns back on (because there will be power applied to the server power supply) and it will automatically turn on.
Hope this helps.
Andy
DELL-Geoff P
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February 8th, 2013 09:00
The last power state is OFF, so the server will not power back up. The server is set to shutdown after the VM's are gracefully shutdown.
Regards,
roel.versteegde
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February 8th, 2013 10:00
Thank you for your answer Geoff P,
So to be clear, it is not possible to have the ESX server boot up at power restoration?
Are there any workarounds that you could point me to?
I would like to have this sorted as this is quite an issue for us.
Regards,
Roel
DELL-Geoff P
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February 8th, 2013 13:00
No, since the last state is OFF, so the server doesn't restart on it's own and requires either to be restarted by the initiating a restart through the DRAC or physically starting the server.
Regards,
roel.versteegde
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February 12th, 2013 05:00
Thank you Andy, I will test your suggestion when I am back in the office on Thursday/Friday.
Regards,
Roel
roel.versteegde
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March 5th, 2013 00:00
Thanks for your information Andy, problem solved!