Hi all,
My environment is essentially a HP Microserver running Windows Server and a Windows 7 virtual machine running HS3.
I've yet to face an issue with power outages as the microserver is connected to a UPS ... until last night.
What essentially happened is the substation blew up quite literally. As a result, power went out, UPS kicked in - happy days. Power was restored, UPS started charging again however they found there were not enough generators and so more came in and power went out again while they distributed the power between the generators. As the UPS was not charged up enough by the second cut, it ran down enough to tell the server to shutdown.
What SHOULD have happened was the virtual machine shutdown safely but it did not - something of a known issue in Hyper-v apparently.
Everything works fine and I take daily backups of HS3 so there was no issue but what I wanted to know is if this happens again, what is the best practice.
Should all plug-ins be switched off first and then homeseer shutdown? This is how I would shutdown on a normal day if/when required but is this actually required or is simply hitting the cross on the hs3 window good enough?
Based on this, I can decide what the best way forward is.
Clearly the UPS is doing enough to tell the server to shutdown but if the above is going to cause me an issue, I may have to run HS3 directly on the server and not via a VM but if this happens, It would essentially be shutting down the server thus closing HS3 without switching off the plug-ins first.
Thanks in advance!
My environment is essentially a HP Microserver running Windows Server and a Windows 7 virtual machine running HS3.
I've yet to face an issue with power outages as the microserver is connected to a UPS ... until last night.
What essentially happened is the substation blew up quite literally. As a result, power went out, UPS kicked in - happy days. Power was restored, UPS started charging again however they found there were not enough generators and so more came in and power went out again while they distributed the power between the generators. As the UPS was not charged up enough by the second cut, it ran down enough to tell the server to shutdown.
What SHOULD have happened was the virtual machine shutdown safely but it did not - something of a known issue in Hyper-v apparently.
Everything works fine and I take daily backups of HS3 so there was no issue but what I wanted to know is if this happens again, what is the best practice.
Should all plug-ins be switched off first and then homeseer shutdown? This is how I would shutdown on a normal day if/when required but is this actually required or is simply hitting the cross on the hs3 window good enough?
Based on this, I can decide what the best way forward is.
Clearly the UPS is doing enough to tell the server to shutdown but if the above is going to cause me an issue, I may have to run HS3 directly on the server and not via a VM but if this happens, It would essentially be shutting down the server thus closing HS3 without switching off the plug-ins first.
Thanks in advance!
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