Firstly a big shout out to Tom. As a fellow MSP owner, your work is invaluble so thank you.
After watching Tom’s videos on XCP-NG I have fallen in love with the product. I am curious however, when issueing the shutdown command to XCP on the command line for example, does it cleanly issue the shut command to all VMs (tools installed on all) currently powered up before the host itself powers down or reboots?
Cheers Tom. I am actually running the hosts in Continuous replication mode after seeing your video on it. Am doing so as both have very fast SSD’s in them and I am only running simple Linux VMs so it works well. About to install and configure uPower on the hosts (m4800 Dell Laptops). If anyone is interested, this is how you do it on latest version of XCP. Cheers:
By default it comes with a configuration in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf which activates hybrid sleep once the battery level reaches critical values. The default for the critical level is 2%.
For users of other distributions, the relevant entries for /etc/UPower/UPower.conf are:
PercentageAction=50
CriticalPowerAction=PowerOff
You can also use TimeAction together with UsePercentageForPolicy=false to let the action be carried out once only the specified time is left:
TimeAction=120
The valid values for CriticalPowerAction are PowerOff , Hibernate and HybridSleep . If HybridSleep is set but not available, Hibernate will be used. If Hibernate is set but not available, PowerOff will be used.