Actually we do use enterprise edition, but I didn't bother to enable DRS
for a single host. That would explain it, thanks that's good to know.
I had to give up my test ESX environment for a few days for another
project. When I was working on it last, I was still stumped on the
automatic standby/suspend.
It didn't seem to matter, even with no RDP sessions to the VMs.. The
windows automatic standby wouldn't work, tried it many times, logged in
and out of the console. After executing the 'Shutdown -> Standby' from
the console of the VMs a few times, even that didn't work. For some
reason the first time I tried it, it worked.. But usually it would go to
a black screen, and pop right back out to the login screen.
I was starting to think maybe the ESX emulated keyboard/mouse (mouse
more likely with vmware tools installed) was waking the VM up before ESX
can grab the ACPI call and suspend the VM. If this is the case, then the
Windows standby countdown, would always get reset, even with a 1 minute
timer, it never worked. The 'wake on LAN' feature is disabled in the
.vmx as well.
After trying the standby via the console at least 20-30 times on each VM
I realized that it would never work on the VMs in the dynamic pool, but
I could do it on my statically mapped VM. I had about a dozen in the
dynamic pool, and only a single static VM. Though the automatic standby
still didn't work in my static VM.
When I get some cycles, I was going to try a VM without VMware tools
installed just to test, and more statically mapped VMs. Fresh out of
other ideas.
- Trev
Cyrille Moureaux wrote:
I realise I never came back to you on this topic, it turns out I was
wrong and that feature is not a basic one of the Virtual
Infrastructure, it's only available with the VMware Virtual
Infrastructure Enterprise edition, which I imagine is not the one
you're running (the feature is called DRS and is described at
http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/drs.html).
We'll try to ignore such errors or identify that situation in the
future, sorry about that confusion,
Cyrille
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