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Is this a standalone ESXi server or part of a cluster? How is the UPS &quot;connected&quot;?<br />
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If you have a separate host that can be used to install the network shutdown module (software from APC/Schneider) on it you can use this to gracefully shutdown the ESXi server.<br />
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You also need to configure to shutdown your 2012 guest vm before the server is shutdown, you can do this through the vSphere client under &quot;Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown&quot; settings.
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Is this a standalone ESXi server or part of a cluster? How is the UPS "connected"?

If you have a separate host that can be used to install the network shutdown module (software from APC/Schneider) on it you can use this to gracefully shutdown the ESXi server.

You also need to configure to shutdown your 2012 guest vm before the server is shutdown, you can do this through the vSphere client under "Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown" settings.

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Hi,<br />
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I have windows server 2012 installed on esxi 5.5 server. <br />
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&nbsp;APC 2kva online ups model no. src2000xli is connected to server.<br />
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I want if power goes down then ups should shut down my windows 2012 server first and then esxi 5.5 before batter going down.<br />
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how could I do this?<br />
please help<br />
<br />
thanks.
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Hi,

I have windows server 2012 installed on esxi 5.5 server. 

 APC 2kva online ups model no. src2000xli is connected to server.

I want if power goes down then ups should shut down my windows 2012 server first and then esxi 5.5 before batter going down.

how could I do this?
please help

thanks.

shutdown esxi 5.5 though ups after windows server

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.