HPE SimpliVity Support for VMware

If you have an HPE SimpliVity Cluster with ESXi as your hypervisor, you can enable HPE SimpliVity support for PowerChute in the PowerChute Setup wizard.

Enable HPE SimpliVity Support

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

Select HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity Details screen, enter your HPE SimpliVity credentials to connect to your Cluster. The default user name is "svtcli", and it is not recommended to change this.
Click Next to validate the connection.
If the connection to your HPE SimpliVity Cluster is successful, you will be directed to the Virtualization Settings screen where you can configure your HPE SimpliVity settings. These settings can later be edited in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.

HPE SimpliVity Virtualization Settings

When HPE SimpliVity support is enabled, the OmniStack Virtual Controller Shutdown/Startup section will appear in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.