Power On/Off task support by way of the operating system on X-Architecture compute nodes

Support for the Power On/Off task can be provided by the operating system on X-Architecture compute nodes. Either Platform Agent or Common Agent must be installed on the system also.

See the following table for more information.

Table 1. Power-state-setting support by operating systems running on X-Architecture compute nodes
Operating system	Supported power settings
Windows (32-bit and 64-bit versions)¹	Restart and Shutdown
Linux (32-bit and 64-bit versions)¹	Restart
VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, guest operating systems	(For Linux) Restart (For Windows) Restart and Shutdown
Microsoft Virtual Server (guest operating system)	Restart and Shutdown
1: If the server that the operating system runs on is also discovered and managed by OOB means, the servers power tasks are mapped in the operating systems managed endpoint. Therefore, more power tasks are supported for such operating systems.