To program a block in the install and then create more software with associated costs stinks.
It WILL backfire.ĪPC have stuck their nose into something that is none of their concern, as configuring shutdown delays has always been the role of the user. To make this totally clear to anyone from APC reading this – you’ve now decided to play ‘big brother’ because ‘APC knows best’. I’m perfectly capable of managing my VM’s on the back-end. The network product should be for when there are multiple physical servers. Sure, APC, you’ve got a network product you’d like to sell, but forcing the issue because you think IT folks can’t handle the issue on the backend on their own is a just a little over the top. The fact is, it’s a simple registry tweak to get the server to pause longer to allow the VM’s to shutdown gracefully. the theory is that you do not want to install business edition, which relies on a physical (USB or serial) connection to the server and then the guest operating systems will crash if the Windows Server 2008 or other server operating system shuts down.”Īgain, I’m not asking for APC to be concerned with what’s running on my PHYSICAL server – that’s up to me to worry about.
… powerchute business edition does not support installation on any type of server where VMWare or Hyper-V is installed because we have specialized versions of powerchute network shutdown available for them. If you have virtual (guest) operating systems, you will need to make sure those get shutdown gracefully via some other method since powerchute cannot command them to shutdown since it will only shut down Windows Server 2008. this means that if you have Windows Sever 2008 (host OS) installed with Hyper-V, powerchute network shutdown will only gracefully shutdown Windows Server 2008. … powerchute network shutdown’s main concern is to shutdown the physical machine’s operating system gracefully. One more time for clarity – you won’t be able to run PowerChute Business Edition on any server running Hyper-V (or any virtualization platform), and you’ll have to PAY them for something else instead (even though the initial version of 8.0 worked just fine).Īs someone said in an APC forum, it’s because…īusiness Edition does not support any type of virtualization Oh, and by the way, you’ll have to PAY for APC network cards and software licenses too (minor detail). APC is telling us we can’t use their basic product because of a ROLE we have assigned to our servers.
It seems that somewhere between 8.0.0 and 8.0.1, APC ‘saw the light’ and decided IT people don’t know how to do their jobs.īasically, APC now believes we shouldn’t be allowed to use the free version of PowerChute version 8.0.1 on Server 2008 if it’s running the Hyper-V role.
PowerChute Personal Edition v3.1.0 for Windows 10 (Version 3.1.Well, it’s been a while since my last post – busy as always!īut APC’s got my dander up, and this is the only way I can relieve some tension ?
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