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Scheduling Remediation Task in Virtual Center 2.5

Hi.

I've recently added in a new scheduled task to re mediate the downloaded patches from VUM and I've successfully scheduled it. However my concern is, when this task starts, will it shutdown my existing VM's while shifting to Maintenance Mode?

Do I need to add another task prior to this just to power off my VM's in that host?

Thanks!

elf_bin

Not if you have DRS enabled. When the ESX(i) host goes into maintenance mode the VMs will power off (not necessarily shutdown - well uit depends on the OS's use din the VMs).

Hope this helps

vmwarun - Arun

If the ESX Hosts are in DRS, then putting one of the hosts in Maintenance Mode will vMotion (Live Migrate) the Virtual Machines using DRS algorithms to other available hosts.

Please note that the new Hosts should have adequate resources for the migrating VMs to work properly.

artena

ASKER

Thank you for the reply. I failed to mentioned that the licensing version that I've got is "Foundation" and I dont have those features such as DRS, HA and Vmotion.

So without these additional features, do you think it will shutdown the VM's?

elf_bin

Generally no - the VMs will be powered off. Here's a pointer to a perl script that can be used to shutdown VMs when power loss is detected (requires UPS though) - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9531

Hope this helps.

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