VMware power management settings on Lenovo IMM2
For some reason these settings keep giving me problems. So i came across the following VMware article
“Configuring the IPMI/iLO setting for power management (DPM) fails with the error: A specified parameter was not correct” (2009169)
The article helped me a little. Because I was using a special character in my password, so don’t use $,@,#,% or anything like that. DPM doesn’t like it. Now I was using Lenovo IMM2 so the article want completely for my case but still it helped a little.
For some reason it was still not accepting my username and password, still “A specified parameter was not correct”. So what i did was the following
- change the password to something only with letters or numbers in the IMM2 interface (capital letters are OK)
- put the host in maintenance mode. this will move all vm’s to other hosts in the cluster (if you only have one host keep in mind for some downtime)
- restart the ESXi host
- after reboot fill in the correct username, password, ip address and mac address (it should accept it now)
- Exit maintenance mode and migrate your vm’s back. or wait until the DRS picks up
hope it helps someone
cheers
* From the moment of writing i was using vSphere 6.0 U3 * Lenovo Systemx 3650 M5 - 8871 series
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