Discover PowerChute™ Network Shutdown
Discover PowerChute™ Network Shutdown
Essential for business continuity
Protection against unplanned power events should be part of a business continuity and resilience strategy for all critical IT workloads.PowerChute Network Shutdown plays a key role by enabling unattended, graceful shutdown of your IT infrastructure during unexpected power events.For additional resiliency, PowerChute can initiate virtual machine migration and unattended start-up to maximize uptime.Validated integrations with all leading virtualization and hyper-converged (HCI) platforms simplify deployment.
What PowerChute Network Shutdown can do for you
What PowerChute Network Shutdown can do for you
Why PowerChute is mission critical
- IT infrastructure does not know what to do when the power goes out.
- A hard shutdown resulting in data loss and corruption is unavoidable.
- After a hard shutdown, someone needs to manually restart everything in the right order.
What's new
- Prioritize and sequence migration, shutdown, and automatic startup of Hyper-V VMs.
- Event logging to OS with unique event ID and severity for single pane view.
- CIS Benchmark Profile 2 compliance for enhanced security and reduced attack surface.
- Blocked script injection from configuring in web UI to prevent unauthorized access.
- Support log bundle download and detailed event logs for troubleshooting.
Benefits
Resiliency
PowerChute provides data security and resiliency during power disturbances. During those beyond the UPS backup duration, PowerChute triggers a graceful, unattended shutdown of all servers, protecting data integrity and reduces system downtime.
Productivity
An unattended start-up ensures uptime immediately when power conditions are restored. Once the servers are back up, PowerChute Network Shutdown can detect stable conditions and then re-start the cluster services and virtual machines, maximizing uptime productivity.
Security
Hardened security with latest updates in public key infrastructure (PKI) support across the interfaces, assures peace of mind.
Configurable actions
During critical events due to power outages or environmental incidents, PowerChute can be configured to automatically migrate critical VMs or gracefully shut down the cluster.
Features
Features
- Integrates seamlessly with virtual and HCI environments without in-house, time-consuming, unvalidated, custom scripts.
- Extensive VM operations supported across environments with VMware ESXi support (VMware, Nutanix ESXI, HPE SimpliVity, Cisco Hyperflex).
- Up-to-date VMware integration with vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) support. VM prioritization support.
- VM migration is supported without VMware vSphere DRS license.
- Full cluster shutdown and start-up support as per VMware best practice procedures.
- Cluster shutdown support with vCenter running as a VM within the cluster.
- VMware vSAN standard and stretched cluster support.
- Prioritization & sequencing the migration, shutdown & automatic startup of Hyper-V VMs.
- PowerChute uses the VxRail API per Dell's recommended practice and can be fully deployed within the Dell VxRail cluster.
- Nutanix Ready Certified, Dell Technology Partner, HPE Technology Silver Partner and Cisco Compatible.
- Intuitive step-by-step configuration wizard avoids any guesswork, reducing installation and set-up time.
- Easy configuration changes even after initial set-up.
- Mass configuration through OVF properties and PowerChute configuration file.
- Allows backup of configured PowerChute settings for faster recovery.
- Web-based secure access from anywhere on the network.
- Supports up to four UPS’s in a Redundant N+1 UPS configuration. All UPS’s in a Redundant Configuration must belong to the same UPS family.
- In an Advanced UPS configuration, a single instance of PowerChute Network Shutdown can monitor multiple UPS setups and initiate a graceful shutdown of equipment based on different redundancy levels. Each setup can be a single UPS or a UPS group.
- Supports Parallel-UPS setups that are configured either for capacity or redundancy.
- Discover, manage and configure PowerChute with EcoStruxure™ IT Expert or Data Center Expert or any 3rd party system via SNMP. Be notified on time of critical UPS events via SNMP Traps.
- Secure Syslog integration for remote event logging that facilitates centralized monitoring and managing of logs.
- PowerChute events logged to Windows event log and Syslog in Linux provide a single pane view of PowerChute events along with other applications.
- Integrated command files support for alarm actions during the shutdown sequence as well as the start-up sequence.
- Integrated SSH actions support to run commands on remote devices before shutdown and on start-up.
- Sequences the shutdown of multiple servers powered by the same UPS to extend runtime for higher-priority servers.
How-to videos
Installing PowerChute Network Shutdown on VMware ESXi
How to Configure PowerChute Network Shutdown for Dell VxRail
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