{"id":137,"date":"2009-11-26T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-11-26T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:28:54","slug":"vsphere-power-cpupolicy-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"vSphere Power.CpuPolicy Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After attending the VMware vSphere FastTrack course came back to play with the new power management features of vSphere.  Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boche.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/11\/tame-electrical-and-heating-costs-with-cpu-power-management\/\">Jason Boche&#8217;s Post<\/a> and attempting to set the Advanced configuration setting Power.CpuPolicy to static, received the following little error.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/vspherepowercpupolicy3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/vspherepowercpupolicy3.png\" alt=\"vspherepowercpupolicy\" title=\"vSphere Power.CpuPolicy\" width=\"400\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The value entered is not valid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did I have a typo? No.<br \/>\nCould not be rights as I am Administrator.<br \/>\nDid I have to set up Power Management in the Cluster? Checked, yes had already done that.<br \/>\nThe next thing that I could think of is that it was linked to the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Shutdown the one of the ESX Hosts, went into the BIOS and set the <strong>Power Regulator for ProLiant<\/strong> to <strong>OS Control Mode<\/strong>. The default setting in my BIOS was <strong>HP Dynamic Power Savings Mode<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Restarted the server, once contactable in VC, was then able to change the setting to dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>So moral of the story, make the hardware changes first, then do the VC changes.<\/p>\n<p>Does DPM all work now? Not sure, still going through the rest of my cluster and testing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After attending the VMware vSphere FastTrack course came back to play with the new power management features of vSphere. Using Jason Boche&#8217;s Post and attempting to set the Advanced configuration <a href=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[25,16],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-vmware-virtualisation","tag-error","tag-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}