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Solution 2
In this solution, ESX and ESXi hosts not controlled by vCenter (paid version only), which provides
following features:
• Dell ULNM application is installed on VIMA/vMA for each host
• Dell ULNM configurations and actions can be managed centrally from the Dell
™ Multi-UPS
Management Console ® client
• Some CLI programming is required
• Remote graceful shutdown of multiple ESX/ESXi servers and hosted VMs
NOTE: For paid versions, VMware suppresses the ability to control VM shutdown profiles in non-licensed ESXi
installations. There are 3rd party methodologies for avoiding this restriction, but this is not covered in this user
guide.
Solution 3
This solution is for ESX-only hosts (paid or free versions), which provides following features:
• Dell ULNM application is installed on each host (on either Windows or Linux VM)
• Remote graceful shutdown of each ESX host and hosted VMs
• Dell ULNM configurations and actions can be managed centrally from the Dell MUMC client
NOTE: This solution is ideal for large infrastructures working through vCenter server. This solution is described in more
detail in the Dell MUMC user’s guide.
Installation Prerequisites
This section guides you through the installation and configuration prerequisites before installing the
Dell ULNM on VIMA or vMA.
Dell ULNM client was tested on a VMware virtualization server with two guest operating systems
(Windows Server 2003 R2 & Red Hat 5.4) for the following:
• electrical power events
• shutdown
• low battery
• reboot
• Dell ULNM on VMware ESXi architecture
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