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With a VMware ESXi hypervisor, you may want to use local Storage VMs. These VMs will enlist, but their the power type is not detected by MAAS. Therefore, commissioning Commissioning and deployment requires the "Manual" power type (see next), and requires you to manually power powering on these VMs (shutdown works).
Using the native VMware power type is possible, but more complex: you must select it through the VMWare UI as well as the MAAS CLI, and you are also required to use a valid (not self-signed) SSL certificate on the hypervisor.
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