Schedule Power off HOST

[Zas]

Hi, I have a standalone host esxi 4. I don't have vcenter. I need that my host "auto power off" at 23:00 pm. every night

How I do ?

I wake up by "wol" everyday at 7:00 am

Thanks!

[Nicolas Solop]

Hi, maybe you can schedule the hostsop.pl script on another system on your network. Take a look at this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/157844;jsessionid=45D0CBE1E196B3EAFACBCD12D0257019?tstart=45

Hope this can help.

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[J1mbo]

The issue is that the interfaces for free-lienced ESXi are read-only and will not enable a scripted shutdown.

However my UPS script, here, could be used for this.

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[Zas]

thanks, but I need a UPS,

the service crond dont exist in esxi4, its possible?

[Nicolas Solop]

I think it is if you pay an ESX license.

[J1mbo]

As said, you need to pay for the ESXi license to use such tools.

The only way to shutdown a free-licensed host is to call the SOAP interfaces like the vSphere client does, which is what my UPS script does. Actualy it's just a shutdown script that I happened to develop to be called by APC's tools, but it can be called by anything (like a scheduled task in your case).

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[Zas]

thans for replies,

J1mbo: This .bat can execute in a virtual machine of the host that I want to shutdown ?

Thanks--

[J1mbo]

Hi, yes it can.

[Zas]

Thanks!