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How to Install NUT (Network UPS Tools) to Monitor Your UPS and Protect Your Linux Server During Power Outages

By admin June 10, 2026

A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring NUT (Network UPS Tools) on Linux to monitor your UPS over USB and automatically shut down your server safely when the battery runs low. Covers a comparison of available solutions, full configuration walkthrough, and how to tune thresholds to avoid alert fatigue.

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VMware ESXi Graceful Shutdown on Power Failure: Proper Configuration to Prevent VM Corruption

By admin June 5, 2026

A guide to configuring graceful shutdown for VMware ESXi during power failures: enabling VMware Tools, setting the correct Autostart order, and integrating a UPS (APC PowerChute or NUT + PowerCLI) for automatic safe shutdown. Real-world experience from an 8-host ESXi cluster in production.