A Raspberry Pi, a UPS and a couple of ESXi servers walk into a bar

If you have the power of multiple servers connected to a UPS, you probably need to shut them down when the power goes down and before the UPS runs out of juice. Unless your UPS can be connected to the network, you usually can only connect a single device to it using good old serial or brand new USB. That single host now knows about the UPS status, but what about all the other systems?...

December 16, 2021