I am new to ESXi and the VI toolkit and would appreciate some help.

I have installed the VI toolkit and using the PowerShell interface am I able to successfuly login to my esxi server and shutdown and start VMs. My question is how to I convert these commands into scripts that I can run on a nightly basis to shutdown\startup the guest VMs? I have an external proccess that copies the vmdk files to another esxi server but as you know the VMs need to be cold to successfuly copy over. Is there any way I coud generate scripts that can be run by Windows scheduler (on a sepertae VM that never gets shutdown) to shutdown before the copy process happens?

I have seacrhed these forums but after much reading I am unclear on how to go about it and am hoping someone can explain it to me in simple terms.

I appreciate the effort in advance

Thanks!

MP.