Jeff, Put the host server in maintenance mode before you take it down. This tells VC that this server is being worked on so don't move any VMs to it and ignore connectivity issues. To put the host in maintenance mode, right click the host in VC and select...you guessed it...Maintenance Mode.
HTH, Shook -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare alarm question Hoping one of you VMWare gurus can answer this.... I'm updating the firmware on some of our ESX servers. In virtual center, there is an alarm defined at the datacenter level to email an alert when a host loses connection to VC. Is there a way to disable this alarm when performing maintenance on an individual server? The host indicates the alarm is read only except at the top level, and I obviously don't want to disable all of the alarms. Creating an alarm for each host just to be able to this isn't a very good solution either. Is there a better way? Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
