User`s guide

Virtualization

80 Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) User’s Guide v1.40

P-164000289—Rev 2

Multiple Hypervisor and Remote Solution

For multiple VMware hosts, it is possible to manage shutdown through IPM by either using or not using a

vCenter plug-in. This solution is effective for large infrastructures working through the vCenter server and

provides the following features:

Remote graceful shutdown of multiple ESX / ESXi servers and hosted virtual machines (VMs)

ESX / ESXi remote maintenance using VMware vMotion)

Eaton IPM plug-in created in vCenter

UPS events accessible through vCenter

These two solution architectures are illustrated in Figure 88and Figure 89.

Figure 88. Eaton IPM Connected to vCenter to Protect VMware Infrastructure