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3 Replies Last post: Jul 17, 2008 5:16 PM by Jason Goldrick  
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Bart Heyblom
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Jul 6, 2008 12:01 PM

Scheduled tasks on ESX-host

I am rather new here, so I am not sure if I should drop a question about ESX3.5 here.
I have been looking everywhere if I could find a way to schedule a reboot of an ESX host server. I only see schedules for Virtual Machines but none for a host machine.
I would think it could be found in a virtual appliance but i didn't find anything.
Perhaps anyone could give me a suggestion about this.
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Glen Ruczynski
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1. Jul 10, 2008 10:28 AM in response to: Bart Heyblom
Re: Scheduled tasks on ESX-host

Unlike a windows server, ESX hosts a are quite stable, shceduled reboots are not needed. Are you seeing behavior that gets resolved via reboot? If so, I'd contact tech support and find out what is really going on.
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Bart Heyblom
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2. Jul 10, 2008 10:50 AM in response to: Glen Ruczynski
Re: Scheduled tasks on ESX-host

There is no such thing as unstable behaviour. In the environment I am talking about they wish to bring down their ESX-host during the time that certain other networkcomponents are going down for certain maintenancereasons. Because these moments are very inconvenient for systemengineers to do that manually we like to schedule that task.

I did read some parts about writing constab files that can do the trick, but i am in no way familiair with that.
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Jason Goldrick
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3. Jul 17, 2008 5:16 PM in response to: Bart Heyblom
Re: Scheduled tasks on ESX-host
if your taking down your whole ESX environment along with all your VMs i think someone will be around to handle the shutdown/restart.

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