Clean Up Vmware Tools Install On Centos
Patrick Debois Independent ITconsultant Bridging the gap between projects and operations by using Agile techniques both in development,project management and system. In article, I am going to show you how to install macOS Sierra 10. VMware player on Windows 10. OS Sierra on VMware installl macOS Sierra VMware. VMware ESXi shutdown triggered by APC UPS connected via USBYes, its possible. Here are details of my similar setup. Hardware configuration. APC Smart UPS 1. ESXi 5. Host via USB. A Linux virtual machine running on this ESXi host. UPS is connected to this VM using ESXi USB pass through option. Software configuration. SM8bzlzM/T17npnxUrcI/AAAAAAAAACc/sjJNwOUkNk4/s1600/Capture.JPG' alt='Clean Up Vmware Tools Install On Centos' title='Clean Up Vmware Tools Install On Centos' />NUT Network UPS Tools master running in the VM, and native ESXi NUT slave running on the ESXi host. Shutdown logic. VM is running the UPS driver usbhid ups which is responsible for the communication with UPS via USB. The upsd process connects to the UPS through the usbhid ups driver and monitors the UPS state. The upsmon master process running on the same machine connects to the upsd and initiates the shutdown. ESXi host is running the 2nd instance of upsmon which also connects to the same VM upsd via internal network. On power failure the following sequence takes place UPS via usbhid ups reports to upsd about power failure. Low Battery upsmon on the VM initiates upssched 5 minutes timer. Timer is aborted if power is restored. When timer fires or when UPS reports Low Battery, the upsmon raises the FSD forced shutdown flag to upsd. In a stand alone NUT configuration the FSD flag would shutdown the machine. Comments Sept. 28, 2017 Ronnie Redd Took awhile to set up with everything working. The pdf part was the hardest. But here the shutdown command is replaced by simple logging like I should shutdown now but I am waiting for the host instead. And does nothing. The FSD flag is also read by ESXi upsmon, which initiates the ESXi host shutdown. ESXi host shuts down all virtual machines one by one. The important thing is that VM which runs the upsd should be shutdown last using ESXi startupshutdown sequence configuration. Important this VM must have vmware tools installed. As you can see, the centos pool has been successfully expanded from 7. GB to 8. 5GB. At this point, however, disk volumes e. VMware Workstation Pro 12. Final Release is the leading virtualization software. Allows you to safely run multiple operating systems at the same time. When it receives the guest shutdown command from the host, the vmware tools shutdown script is being started. This script checks for the etckillpower flag. If no flag, it does nothing this means user activated linux shutdown, not the UPS event. But if the flag exists FSD active, then this script sends to UPS the delayed powerdown command say, in 3 minutes. After running vmware tools script the guest VM shuts down. ESXi sees the last VM poweroff state and goes down itself it takes around 1 minute because there is no other machines running now. CentOS6-VMware-Tools-Install-VMware-Tools.png' alt='Clean Up Vmware Tools Install On Centos' title='Clean Up Vmware Tools Install On Centos' />VMware Workstation is a hosted hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems an x86 version of earlier releases was available it. This howto shows how to use the new tools preupgrade assistant and redhatupgradetool to upgrade from CentOS 6. CentOS 7. Why did Linux, the Unixlike operating system kernel started by Linus Torvalds in 1991 that became central to the open source world, succeed where so many similar. In 2 remaining minutes the UPS cuts off the power. When power is restored, the ESXi starts and powers on all VMs. The UPS monitoring machine must be started first the same configuration as for shutdown order. Downloads The NUT for Linux could be installed from package. The native NUT client for ESXi server can be downloaded using last link on this page http www. Some my scripts and conf files are here only changed lines are shown http pastebin. Kk. Eean. K1. Notes Of course there are more details, and it took some time for me to make this working as it should. But now it performs very nicely. This system accounts for the cases when you just shutdown the monitoring VM from inside vmware tools script is not run, or if its a ESXi host initiated VM shutdown no etckillpower flag, so no UPS load off, or if its a ESXi shutdown the same. The only important is to have this VM running ASAP after host boot, and shutdown it last so host down time is predictable as said above, it is around 1 minute for me and 2 more minutes I reserve just in case. My UPS monitoring Linux VM is also SambaNFS sharing server for backup storage, the NATDHCP server for VMs, and some other light weight services. It takes around 2. Onenote 2003 Activation Crack more. MHz of ESXi CPU shares and around 1. MB of active RAM when idle. Due to using the NUT you can power more devices from the same UPS if required, and all they can be shut down gracefully. No Power. Chute andor expensive Network Monitor Card is required.