Turn on ESXi host

Hello world

I was wondering, is there a way to power on a vCenter ESXi host?

I have a test environment with a host connected to my vCenter, I disabled the ESXi host and tried to power of vCenter but is greyed out.

I'm not 100% sure because I can't access my test environment for the moment. However I guess that option to power on a host is available with the Enterprise Plus edition (or in evaluation mode) when the DRS, and DPM (Distributed Power Management) are configured. What it basically does is trying to power on the host, using WOL (Wake on LAN)

André

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