Shutdown all VM's except one

[PanjaNL]

Running ESXi v6.5u1.

I would like to shutdown all running VM's except for one.

Running /sbin/shutdown.sh will shutdown all running VM's (auto started vm's with vmware tools installed, that is) but I need one VM to stay alive.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

[daphnissov]

What license do you have?

[admin]

Use this below blog for shutting down multiple VM. Good Information  provided 

Using PowerShell to Gracefully Shut Down Multiple Virtual Machines in VMware | Pipe2Text.com

or

Easy and Effective solution in PowerCLI to Shutdown VMs with one click: 

First LOGON into the vCenter from locally/remotely PowerCLI

Connect-VIServer -server YouvCenterServerName

PASTE,

get-content c:\cli\vm.txt | foreach-object { shutdown-vmguest $_ }

Press ENTER > DONE! 

EXAMPLE:

C: Is your local C:\ Drive

CLI: You need to create a folder in the C: Drive & name it "cli" or anything you want

VM.TXT: then create a txt file & input all the VM names in it. EX:

VM01

VM02

Vm03

Regards,

Randhir

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[PanjaNL]

The PowerShell method looks good but requires a Windows machine to do the shutdown.

I would like to be able to shutdown all VM's except one from the ESXi host through cli or script.

[UmeshAhuja]

Hi,

Please find the below link having a script where you can mention your specified VM's for shutdown.

Script: Gracefully Shut Down all VMs on a Given Set of Hosts (VMware/XenDesktop) • Helge Klein

[admin]

I am going to test Cli command on my lab ESXI host and let you know  output.......

Regards,

Randhir

[PanjaNL]

Thanks! Looking forward to the results.

[admin]

Power Cli command is working fine for me  . I am able to shutdown group of VM machine from host .

Regards,

Randhir