PowerChute Network Shutdown for Virtualization and HCI, 1-Year Subscription

PowerChute Network Shutdown for Virtualization and HCI, 1-Year Subscription Customers with PowerChute v5.0 will require a license for certain features:

• HCI and virtualization support is only available with PowerChute licensing which includes:

– Full integration with leading HCI platforms

– Unattended start-up

– Automated workload migrations

Impact:

• No impact to existing customers as their current version will continue to work

• Customers will need to purchase a license for future upgrades

• Graceful shutdown for Windows and Linux will remain available without a license

PowerChute features – out of the box

Single, Redundant/Parallel & Advanced UPS Configuration

Centralized management via SNMP

SSH actions (Script storage shutdown)

Standalone ESXi Host shutdown

Command ?le integration

Enhanced SSL Certi?cate handling for PKI

Event logging

Environment

Windows

Linux

Standalone VMware ESXi host

PowerChute features – licensed

Includes out-of-the-box features PLUS

Hyper-V, SCVMM

vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS)

VM Shutdown, Startup, Migration, Prioritization

Cluster Shutdown/Startup

Host maintenance mode and shutdown

vSphere 7.0 and above managed by vCenter

VMware vSAN including Stretch Cluster

Cisco HyperFlex

HPE SimpliVity

Nutanix Nutanix AHV and ESXi

Dell VxRail including Stretch Cluster

HCI and virtualization support is only available with PowerChute license.

Licensing is per node; for example, a 4-node virtualized cluster requires 4 PowerChute licenses.