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Alarm Actions, exploring the new version of ESX/vCenter

Duncan Epping · Apr 7, 2009 ·

Eric Sloof(1, 2, 3) already explored the new “alarms and actions” capabilities. There’s one that really stands out in my opinion in the next release of ESX/vCenter(vSphere):

Indeed, “Enter maintenance mode“. Now you might wonder when you would want to use this. Wouldn’t it be nice that when your hardware is degraded, for instance memory status changed or hardware power changed, the host enters maintenance mode. I wouldn’t want to run virtual machines on a host that has a memory error or runs on only one power supply. Of course this action only applies to the “host” objects:

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Management & Automation, Server ESX, ha, monitoring, vcenter, vSphere

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  1. NiTRo says

    7 April, 2009 at 23:32

    what a teasing 🙂

  2. Ewan says

    8 April, 2009 at 12:01

    The action of entering maintenance mode is pretty useful, I guess you’d need to treat it with some respect though – if you lost half your power supply through a PDU outage or similar, you could suddenly have dozens or hundreds of physical servers go into maintenace mode at once.

    Definitely something to play with though, will be useful in all sorts of situations.

  3. Ben says

    16 April, 2009 at 16:39

    Have you had a chance to see if the ‘Scheduled Tasks’ feature has been enhanced?

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan co-authors the vSAN Deep Dive book series and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan also co-hosts the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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