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    <title>topic Re: Scheduled task - restart vs reset in VMware vCenter™ Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373415#M431</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;Very Very bad option!!!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;I'm wondering HOW THAT vmware did not yet came with a save solution do execute a simple vm restart (OS reboot) and not PC RESET - as its actual doing right now ???&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;Yes, this option in images below is executing&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- A soft unplug power cord and plug power cord on and start&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- otherwise a 5sec power button press and press power button to start again&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;The OS is feeling like - oups I missed power - are you Shure you want me start normally ??? &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;And exactly agree that doing restart with 2 tasks in VMware is a bad idea too as you may miss the start for numerous reasons the shutdown took too long&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;For Windows guys :&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;Suggest you to use an old mate Task Scheduler&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- Execute a program: c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe with option -r -f&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- Run once: tomorrow at 00:01:00 for example (tonight said in other words)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Vadim &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:55:39 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>MrMegaVadim</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-10-31T18:55:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Scheduled task - restart vs reset</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373411#M427</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Good day all.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I want to create a nightly restart on a server via the vCenter Scheduled Task option.&amp;nbsp; Why is there a shutdown option and a hard reset option but not a restart option?&amp;nbsp; I could set this up with two jobs one as a shutdown and another as a power on but I want to have the restart perform as fast as possible.&amp;nbsp; While testing, on server took 20 seconds to shutdown and sat for 40 seconds until the next scheduled task kicked in (set to a minute after shutdown).&amp;nbsp; Also what happens in a situation that where the shutdown talks more than a minute?&amp;nbsp; Would the server never power on because it missed the power on window?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I guess my question is why is there only a shutdown option that leverages the VMware Tools but not a restart option that also uses the tools to perform a clean reboot?&amp;nbsp; I know I can also do this in Windows scheduled tasks but wanted to use vCenter 5.0.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 20:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373411#M427</guid>
      <dc:creator>NetworkAdminZ</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T20:20:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scheduled task - restart vs reset</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373412#M428</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;If you can do it from the VC, but the VM must have vmware-tools installed. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="1.1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52150i5960D52B89A0C793/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="1.1.JPG" alt="1.1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52158iFE512A8028D59672/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2.JPG" alt="2.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52159i3FDEACBEEDE88BA8/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="3.JPG" alt="3.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="4.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52160i331D0B2C2D8090E2/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="4.JPG" alt="4.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="5.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52161i0D094DABD6C6666C/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="5.JPG" alt="5.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For more information see the documentation:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-vcenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.bsa.doc_40/vc_admin_guide/managing_virtual_machines1/c_changing_virtual_machine_power_states.html" title="http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-vcenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.bsa.doc_40/vc_admin_guide/managing_virtual_machines1/c_changing_virtual_machine_power_states.html"&gt;VMware vSphere 4 - ESX and vCenter Server&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 09:18:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373412#M428</guid>
      <dc:creator>DanielOprea</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-21T09:18:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scheduled task - restart vs reset</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373413#M429</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the reply. Before I posted on this forum, I tested exactly what you are showing but it resulted in a hard reset.&amp;nbsp; Not using the tools to do a soft shutdown.&amp;nbsp; When I used the shutdown option, it properly used the tools to shut down the server.&amp;nbsp; I want to use the tools with a scheduled task to restart the server, not reset it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 13:19:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373413#M429</guid>
      <dc:creator>NetworkAdminZ</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-21T13:19:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scheduled task - restart vs reset</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373414#M430</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Look at this blog and do it by script.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://ict-freak.nl/2010/05/06/powercli-schedule-a-restart-job-for-one-or-multiple-vms/" title="http://ict-freak.nl/2010/05/06/powercli-schedule-a-restart-job-for-one-or-multiple-vms/"&gt;PowerCLI Schedule a restart job for one or multiple VM&amp;amp;amp;rsquo;s | ICT-Freak.nl&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What S.O. VMs are? Because no program restart level S.O. ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 13:35:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373414#M430</guid>
      <dc:creator>DanielOprea</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-21T13:35:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scheduled task - restart vs reset</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373415#M431</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;Very Very bad option!!!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;I'm wondering HOW THAT vmware did not yet came with a save solution do execute a simple vm restart (OS reboot) and not PC RESET - as its actual doing right now ???&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;Yes, this option in images below is executing&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- A soft unplug power cord and plug power cord on and start&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- otherwise a 5sec power button press and press power button to start again&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;The OS is feeling like - oups I missed power - are you Shure you want me start normally ??? &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;And exactly agree that doing restart with 2 tasks in VMware is a bad idea too as you may miss the start for numerous reasons the shutdown took too long&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;For Windows guys :&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;Suggest you to use an old mate Task Scheduler&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- Execute a program: c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe with option -r -f&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;"&gt;- Run once: tomorrow at 00:01:00 for example (tonight said in other words)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Vadim &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:55:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373415#M431</guid>
      <dc:creator>MrMegaVadim</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-10-31T18:55:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scheduled task - restart vs reset</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373416#M432</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why this option is missing, what's the (REMOVED) point in scheduling an hard reset on a running VM overnight?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Only an idiot would do it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(REMOVED) vmware.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Moderator edits: Profanities removed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:56:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/Scheduled-task-restart-vs-reset/m-p/373416#M432</guid>
      <dc:creator>mmango</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-01-24T08:56:58Z</dc:date>
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