Issue is... when issuing a shut-down to the ESXi 5.5 host, it will not power off completely.
The order of events is:
- manually shut down all VMs and verify down
- issue shutdown (vsphere client or direct keyboard / monitor)
- a minute or two goes by, then it stops responding to pings
- 10 seconds later, the keyboard lights go out, and the hard drives park their heads
At the moment it should power down physically, instead, the CPU temp (when read from BMC) goes up 25C+. Screen stays up with the VMware ESXi typical all-black idle screen, hung / static. Keyboard is inactive, no caps lock / num lock. Cannot re-plug USB keyboard.
This is preventing what would otherwise be a decent shutdown using a CyberPower UPS. It would be nice to trigger the ESXi shutdown and not have it ramp up its power consumption when the system should be off, since the UPS handles all network devices as well. It's just going to waste battery. (Also, in case it means anything, had to load the I210 drivers that I thoght were a part of the base 5.5 install, so its a modified file to add those.)
Thanks for any advice!
EDIT to add system specs:
P9D-E/4L
E3-1245v3
4x 8GB ECC DDR3 1600
Samsung 840Pro 256GB
Neutron GTX 120GB
Seagate 750GB
2x 9300-8i
Sandisk Fit 8GB USB drive
The order of events is:
- manually shut down all VMs and verify down
- issue shutdown (vsphere client or direct keyboard / monitor)
- a minute or two goes by, then it stops responding to pings
- 10 seconds later, the keyboard lights go out, and the hard drives park their heads
At the moment it should power down physically, instead, the CPU temp (when read from BMC) goes up 25C+. Screen stays up with the VMware ESXi typical all-black idle screen, hung / static. Keyboard is inactive, no caps lock / num lock. Cannot re-plug USB keyboard.
This is preventing what would otherwise be a decent shutdown using a CyberPower UPS. It would be nice to trigger the ESXi shutdown and not have it ramp up its power consumption when the system should be off, since the UPS handles all network devices as well. It's just going to waste battery. (Also, in case it means anything, had to load the I210 drivers that I thoght were a part of the base 5.5 install, so its a modified file to add those.)
Thanks for any advice!
EDIT to add system specs:
P9D-E/4L
E3-1245v3
4x 8GB ECC DDR3 1600
Samsung 840Pro 256GB
Neutron GTX 120GB
Seagate 750GB
2x 9300-8i
Sandisk Fit 8GB USB drive
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