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Ken_Wong_48678
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Jun 09, 2009

VMWareAutomation

Hi,     There is a topic called VMWareAutomation under iControl Wiki     http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iControl/VMWareAutomation.html     I want to know ...
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liu_yong_74150
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Aug 23, 2010
Posted By ppindell on 07/19/2010 06:30 PM

 

Liu,

 

 

Check This out: http://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/2002/Default.aspx

 

 

This new DevCentral group discusses the new F5 Plug-in for VMware vSphere. One of the great functions of this plug-in is to gracefully bleed connections from a VM, and then issue a shutdown, and/or gracefully bleed connections and leave the VM running so that maintenance can be performed. Gracefully bleed means that the VM's IP is disabled in all pools to which it belongs, which keeps new connections from being made to that VM. The plug-in then waits for the number of connections to that VM to drop below X threshold, or to wait Y Minutes. X and Y are configurable variables set by the user at run time for each action.

 

 

There are many other useful functions available via this plug-in. The plug-in is available as a free download. Have fun with it.

 

 

Paul

 

 

 

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I just download the plug-in, and test it in my lab, but I can't find the provision trigger in the plug-in configuration. Do I miss it or anything else needed ?