Doesn't have a controlled stop on ESXi 4.1 U1

We have a 3 HA server cluster running ESXi 4.1 U1 patched to 433742 with the bundle HP ESXi 4.1 1.1 and the acidification of NMI HP driver installed on all.

When occur with our UPS to initiate a stop, 3 servers ESXi killed all the VM without stop them gracefully.  ESXi 3 hosts seemed so gracefully shut themselves down.

The power is restored, all the VM has started at the same time.

We use a 5000 VA APC UPS network management card installed with the PCNs 3.0.0 on the vMA.

To configure Shutdown, I followed the instructions on the site of APC here http://Nam-en.APC.com/app/answers/detail/A_ID/11398/kW/PowerChute%203.0%20esx/session/L3RpbWUvMTMxMTc3NTc5MC9zaWQvQTdEY3QxQWs%3D

All guests of ESXi 3 have start and stop virtual machines with the system is activated with the default close delay set to 30 seconds and the shut down of comments stop action.  All virtual machines are set to manual start according to best practices of VMware.

The default cluster HA what a virtual machine recovery low priority.  Most VM is set to use the cluster for the priority of restarting VM configuration, however, we have our servers with other dependants of servers on them the average value of DC and vMA set to high.

Any ideas where I have gone wrong?

Don't know if this helps or not... I never really had success using the vMA to the judgment of our guests...  I resorted to writing a powershell script that connects a Windows VM with the software of the installed APC network downtime.  I downloaded on my http://blog.mwpreston.net/2011/10/19/powercli-to-shutdown-vm/ blog feel free to change and use it however you want... If this is the way you want to go... it is similar to the vMA solution, just using powershell instead of the sdk and a guest of windows instead of the vMA.

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