Desired power state (Auto-booting blades)

[JCcisco123]

When we shutdown a ESX host in vCenter the UCSM just reboots the server. The desired power state is "up" but where do you configure that setting so the server stays down after a shutdown?

vSphere DPM is NOT enabled.

I have looked all of UCSM for any setting that would be causing this and no luck.

[Robert Burns]

The "Desired Power State" should have no impact on your server rebooting it when you opt to shut it down.  This only affects a server being powered on/off following an association or re-ack.

How exactly are you shutting down the hosts?  vCenter, command line (if so, what command)?

Regards,

Robert

[JCcisco123]

Found the solution. It was a BIOS version mismatch.

[Robert Burns]

JC,

What do you mean a BIOS version mis-match?  The BIOS does necessarily have to be the same version of your UCSM.  I would suspect a BIOS setting however which would have caused this.  Resetting the CMOS settings via UCSM should have rendered the same result.

Regards,

Robert