Unlike the name PowerPanel Business Edition, this is a free tool. It allows you to manage your CyberPower UPS and to shutdown various systems, including an ESXi host.
It took CyberPower from version 3.3 to version 4.0 of the PowerPanel software to support ESXi 6.7. Reason was that VMware ESXi 6.5 was the latest version supporting vMA:
Below the steps to get PowerPanel 4.x up and running on ESXi 6.7+.
First of all, you have to ensure your CyberPower is connected to ESXi via USB.
Then you need to download and install the CyberPower virtual appliance “PowerPanel Business”
When the appliance runs, you have to virtually plugin the USB.
Finally configure the virtual appliance.






