Setting up PowerChute Network Shutdown in VMWare ESX 3.5

By mike

I currently admin a sizable VMWare ESX deployment hosting a couple dozen domains and over a hundred Windows servers. Most are for testing and could be rebuilt pretty quickly, but some are for production deployment - at least one of which is fairly irreplaceable. This past summer our office suffered some extended outages due to city-wide power interruptions, so it was a no-brainer to approve the purchase of PowerChute services for these servers. Turns out, APC is lagging a little on getting an ESX 3.5-compatible current version of PCNS out there so I decided to get v2.2.1 running on my five ESX hosts.

Here’s how I did it - mostly for my own future reference: Read more »

Why I’m more than a little hoarse this morning.

By mike

Downtown Boulder, last night, pretty much right after Obama’s acceptance speech. Lots more photos from our good friend Steve Z on his blog…

Our dog, chicken bone ninja.

By mike

The large piece Anna removed by force and by the passing light a car’s headlights last night standing by the side of the road. The smaller piece Thatcher gave up after a tasty tasty hydrogen peroxide cocktail.

Hooray for the Bantz Canine Surgery Avoidance Response Team of Mike and Anna.