User`s guide

Extended Functionality
132 Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) User’s Guide v1.40 P-164000289—Rev 2
Figure 145. HA Mode with Eaton IPM
Eaton IPM continues to protect the hypervisor also when power fails.
Due to the deactivation of the automatic startup and shutdown
, at the end of utility failure sequence, all VMs
power-off.
There are two solutions to prevent
this VM from powering off:
l
Configure the VMware ESX/ESXi nodes in Eaton IPM to shut down the VMs (remote shutdown of the VM
setting).
l
Install a Eaton IPM on each VM, even if it is not an optimized solution. Take care to ensure that when VMs
move, the Eaton IPM still links to the same UPS power source.
Table 18. Table Configuration/Behavior
Case Remote Shutdown
VM Remote
Shutdown Type
HA in vCenter VM Action Hypervisor Action Comments
1 ENABLED ENABLED ENABLED SHUTDOWN SHUTDOWN Valid Configuration
2 ENABLED ENABLED DISABLED SHUTDOWN SHUTDOWN Valid Configuration
(more reliable
to let
VMware shut down
its own VMs
3 ENABLED DISABLED ENABLED CRASH SHUTDOWN Hypervisor shuts
d
own without the
VMs
4 ENABLED DISABLED DISABLED CRASH/SHUTDOWN SHUTDOWN Depends on the VM
startup/shutdown
configuration
5 DISABLED ENABLED ENABLED CRASH CRASH No action (IPM)
6 DISABLED ENABLED DISABLED CRASH CRASH No action (IPM)
7 DISABLED DISABLED ENABLED CRASH CRASH No action (IPM)
8 DISABLED DISABLED DISABLED CRASH CRASH No action (IPM)
NOTE For more information about the deactivation of the Automatic Startup/Shutdown
when creating a VMware HA Cluster, see links provided by “vSphere SDK for Perl”
on page 134.