Unsolved Proxmox: UPS
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In all the Proxmox discussions, I can't say that I have heard or seen anything regarding the use of the UPS,.. Tripplite or APC or other.
I have only done a little searching regarding this and having seen much as of yet, but sometimes it's about the keyword order of the search.
Is there any pointed documentation on how to establish UPS support / power down on a Proxmox node. While mine isn't 'production' grade or priority, it would be nice to know that my node will power down properly over just shutting down with the battery is depleted.
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Google search with some possible options
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@gjacobse said in Proxmox: UPS:
In all the Proxmox discussions, I can't say that I have heard or seen anything regarding the use of the UPS,.. Tripplite or APC or other.
I have only done a little searching regarding this and having seen much as of yet, but sometimes it's about the keyword order of the search.
Is there any pointed documentation on how to establish UPS support / power down on a Proxmox node. While mine isn't 'production' grade or priority, it would be nice to know that my node will power down properly over just shutting down with the battery is depleted.
I have an APC for my home lab server that's running Proxmox currently. This is the 1 thing I've found that XCP-NG does better than Proxmox, a UPS "just works".
For my Proxmox server, I have the UPS assigned to a VM. However, I haven't found a solution to shutdown the server from the VM that I like yet. All the online documentation I've seen says to use apcupsd or nut, and I'd rather not have to have anything non-standard running on it.
That's my long, whiny way of saying I just need to write a 1 liner script to do it. Come on man, it's not that hard!
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@travisdh1 ScaleCluster has this issue as well, you have to use a script on a separate computer so it shutdown the servers. So in essence is not native.
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@dbeato said in Proxmox: UPS:
@travisdh1 ScaleCluster has this issue as well, you have to use a script on a separate computer so it shutdown the servers. So in essence is not native.
Yeah, this isn't abnormal either, I think VMWare/Hyper-V are the only products that has native support for this.
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Why not use apcusd (http://www.apcupsd.org/)
you can calibrate the ups and monitor and much more. I have it running on a few proxmox pve servers. There is a Debian wiki as well. (https://wiki.debian.org/apcupsd)
you just need the usb cable that connects to the ups.
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@pattonb said in Proxmox: UPS:
Why not use apcusd (http://www.apcupsd.org/)
you can calibrate the ups and monitor and much more. I have it running on a few proxmox pve servers. There is a Debian wiki as well. (https://wiki.debian.org/apcupsd)
you just need the usb cable that connects to the ups.
In a scenario like Proxmox, sure use it all day long as you have community support only (generally speaking) it likely works just fine. When something doesn't work though and you need a dedicated support channel does this potentially pose an issue, if its not included and used as the default product.
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We have all APCs and they work fine in our DC. They work fine for us which include our windows and linux servers.
