Cisco HyperFlex Support for VMware

If you have a Cisco HyperFlex Cluster with ESXi as your hypervisor, you can enable HyperFlex support for PowerChute in the PowerChute Setup wizard.

Enable Cisco HyperFlex Support

To enable HyperFlex support, open the PowerChute Setup wizard and follow the steps below.

Select HyperFlex from the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Support drop-down list in the vCenter Server Details screen and click Next.

The Accept Untrusted SSL Certificates checkbox is unselected by default. If left unselected, only SSL certificates signed by a trusted CA will be accepted when connecting to vCenter Server and ESXi hosts. By default, these certificates are self-signed and this will cause a cause connection error. This is for increased security and to prevent man-in-the-middle (MITM) type attacks. Select this checkbox if you want to use untrusted/self-signed SSL certificates to connect to vCenter Server and ESXi hosts.

Alternatively, you can add the vCenter Server root CA certificate to the PowerChute-keystore by following the steps detailed in the vCenter Server Settings topic.

In the HyperFlex Details screen, enter your HyperFlex credentials to connect to your Cluster.
Click Next to validate the connection.
If the connection to your HyperFlex Cluster is successful, you will be directed to the Virtualization Settings screen where you can configure your HyperFlex settings. These settings can later be edited in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.

Cisco HyperFlex Virtualization Settings

When HyperFlex support is enabled, additional sections will appear in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.

For more information on these sections, see: