CUCM 8.6.2a on UCS C200 M2 - UPS graceful shutdown

[angeliquedevos]

Hi,

We have a CUCM 8.6.2a running on a UCS C200 M2. We recently connected a UPS to the UCS blade and I have read in the CUCM release notes that there is a feature that will gracefully shutdown the CUCM when low power is reached. But, I'm wondering how you activate it? The document only mentions about connecting a USB but since this is a virtual server should I make some configuration change to the ESXi?

Here is the link  I'm refering to: 
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/rel_notes/8_6_2/cucm-rel_notes-862a.html#pgfId-2041345

Thanks!

Angelique

[yahsiel2004]

I don't think you can achieve this, when you're running a virtualized CUCM.

Regards,

Yosh

[James Hawkins]

Hi,

Some UPS providers such as APC have software that works with VMware ESXi and can down hosted virtual machines.

http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SFPCNS31-V

I have not tried setting this up but it should work as long as the VMware tools are up to date on the Cisco UC VMs.