Hi Trevor,
There's only one important feature I can't seem to get working, I
realize this is an ESX issue but maybe you will have some insight. I
can't seem to get the automatic suspend feature working at all. Looking
through ESX documentation the only thing I can find even slightly
related to this is from the release notes:
<snip>
Support for Guest ACPI S1 Sleep Allows You to Wake up a Sleeping Virtual
Machine
VMware Tools provides support for guest operating systems that enable
ACPI S1 sleep. This feature requires you to have the latest version of
VMware Tools installed."
</snip>
If it has the support to wake up (like wake on lan), I assume ESX should
detect this ACPI call when you Shutdown/Standby and suspend the VM?
The VDA cookbook had a link on how to install third party software to
suspend through an AD GPO. I just set the power management options to
suspend after 30 minutes in my golden image. Nothing happens, but even
when I shutdown/standby a VM through the console, it usually goes to a
black screen for a second then comes right out. (with console session
locked)
The desktop VMs are all XP Pro, which is what our 250 user
implementation will be using. Latest vmware tools installed of course.
There are two things which need to be done for the suspension on
idleness to happen, you need to set the timeout within the XP OS itself
for the machine to go into Standby mode in the Power Options of the
Control Panel, and you also have to edit the properties of the VM
through the VI client, by selecting Edit Settings, then the Options tab,
and there the Power Management option to choose the "Suspend the virtual
machine" option when the XP OS goes into Standby. The mention about the
GPO in the cookbook is only related to the first step (setting the
timeout in XP).
I'm not sure if that's what you've already done, but I thought I'd
mention since it seems easy to miss the second step.
Cyrille
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