APC UPS to Esxi

[jowdemanne]

Dear techtippers,

 

Recently (well, about 6 months ago) I bought an APC UPS for my home server. I've bought it to grow so it runs my server for about 1.5 hours I think so I haven't gotten around to setting up graceful shutdowns of my VM's.

Now I'd like to do this but it seems there is not clear cut solution for this.

I have an APS SMT1500 and I'm running an Esxi host on my server to host all of my VMs. 

The VMs are windows, linux, Freenas, a bit of everything.

I'd like to give the command when my UPS is at #% battery it start gracefully shutting down Esxi VMs.

Do any of you have experience with this?

[leadeater]

http://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA159688/

http://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/PowerChute-Network-Shutdown-v4-2-for-Virtualization/P-SFPCNS42-V

http://www.apc.com/salestools/PMAR-9DNLQK/PMAR-9DNLQK_R3_EN.pdf