HP Tower Uninterruptible Power System - Manual (Page 115)

Installing on a virtual operating system 115
Item Description
3 Virtual Machine
4 Physical machine with VMware ESX and HPPP
5 UPS with an HP UPS Network Module
Configuring VMware ESX Server 4.0
To enable a graceful shutdown of the Virtual Machines, install VMware Tools on each Virtual Machine.
To allow interactions between the physical and virtual machines, install VMware Tools on each virtual
machine. For more information, see the VMware ESX Server documentation.
Configure the physical machine to allow automatic operating system boot on start-up in the BIOS. For more
information, see the hardware documentation.
To set each Virtual Machine to automatically boot when VMware starts-up:
1. From the Virtual Infrastructure Client, select Virtual machine startup / shutdown
menu>Configuration>Properties>Start and stop Virtual Machines with the system, and then click
Enable.
2. Define the Startup Order of the Virtual Machines.
o Start and Stop Virtual Machines with the system—Enabled
o Default Startup Delay—x Seconds
o Default Shutdown Delay—x Seconds