WOL support
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iugrifma Member |
Hi ! Can anyone please give me some advice on WOL (Wake-On-Lan) support for VMs in ESXi 4.0? Is it sufficient for the NIC(+driver) to support WOL or is there anything special that needs to be done on the physical host itself (BIOS?) for ESXi Server to be configured via a vSphere client to make use of WOL within various VMs? As an aside does the ESXi 4.0 vmkernel support WOL itself?? Thanks for any help! Griffo. |
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Dave Member |
Here\'s the infor for WOL support for a VM. For ESXi, it\'ll be a feature of the host and not ESXi itself, but to use Distributed Power Management ESXi/vCenter have to detect that ESXi has management ports configured on NICs that support WOL. --------- Wake on LAN supports only Windows guest operating systems and is not available on Vlance NICs, or when a Flexible NIC is operating in Vlance mode (that is, the current VMware Tools are not installed on the guest operating system). Wake on LAN can resume virtual machines that are in an S1 sleep state only. It cannot resume suspended, hibernated, or powered off virtual machines. The following NICs support Wake on LAN: n Flexible (VMware Tools required). n vmxnet n Enhanced vmxnet n vmxnet 3 |
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