I'm running vCenter 4.0, and I'm trying to create a scheduled task that would shutdown mutliple guests at the same time. The options that I get in the Scheduled Tasks for the machine shutdown is only for one VM at a time. Is there any way that this scheduled task can be setup for a group of machines? even on a resource pool level if needed. I tried to choose the containing folder, but it only allowed me to select a guest VM.

If there are other ways to do this, I would appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction.

I am in ESX4 enterprise with HA, DRS and vMotion, so I can't really have some cron job running, as I wouldn't think that would be efficient to setup on every single host I have.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,