Joseph Holland just updated the “UPS initiated shutdown of ESXi” document I blogged about this week. This time Joseph used VIMA to get the job done. Here’s a link to the document on VI:OPS.
The procedure still requires an unsupported change on ESXi. My guess is that this will soon be fixed by using perl on VIMA. Perl enables you to use the SDK and vi-fastpass. Vi-fastpass is an authentication component which supports unattended authentication. In other words, there’s no need to store clear text passwords in script files anymore and no need to change ESXi. On twitter William Lam aka “@lamw” already hinted that he’s looking into this…