Re: UPS Advice

[Diana Eichert <deichert%wrench.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mike Bowie wrote:

> I actually meant to bit-bucket this and start over once my brain kicked
> in.  (Sadly, habit had me hit "Send" instead.)
>
> When it comes to VM's, in my case, it's quicker and easier to have the
> host suspend all it's children, rather than shut them down.  This may
> not be a good answer with a large number of child systems, if the time
> required to suspend them all is greater than that to shut them down or
> if the available runtime isn't that long; but in my case a suspend takes
> only a few seconds.
>
> The other benefit being that they're back online faster after the restart.
>
> Mike.

Yeah, I was just tossing this out as an idea, in my test environment
suspend makes more sense, but with a "large" number of virtual systems
shutdown might be worth testing.

thanks