KW> MH> I never got that fancy with my setup and I have (10) APC UPS units
KW> over MH> here. If my power it out long enough for them to go out,
KW> everything MH> just powers off immediately. I would try and do a clean
KW> shutdown, but
KW> MH> even if it goes down hard I have not had issues with my ESXi
KW> MH> server/VMs. Worst case, I could restore things.
KW> 
KW> Hey, if you have 10 UPSes, why not? 

At one point I was running an official APC VM appliance that listened to my
network managed APC units and I could have them perform shutdowns of my VMs if
there was no power after xx minutes.

At the time, most of our power related issues were not that long.  Often times
the shutdown would start and my power would be back on, so it ended up creating
me more work to bring everything back up for nothing.  It just didn't work as
well as I had liked and all my UPS last different amounts of times based on
load.

I found doing the manual shutdown if I'm around worked better, but certainly am
not opposed to giving it another shot with different software and options. There
is likely something better these days that would work with my ESXi setup and
Windows servers/systems.

- Mark

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