Powecli Scripting to Decommission VM

[Sundararajan]

Hi All,

I want Powercli script to decommission a Windows VM, I have no idea on scripting so anyone please help to share the complete script. Thanks.

[virtualg_uk]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by decommission, ie do you just want to delete the VM and all attached disks or do you want to perform other tasks?

[Sundararajan]

Want to delete the VM and all attached disks from VC.

[virtualg_uk]

‌You'll just need to use the remove-vm powercli cmdlet with the correct parameters as per: Remove-VM - vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets Reference‌

PowerCLI Getting started guide:

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-and-vsphere-articles/general/gettin...

[Sundararajan]

Hi Grba,

This will not fulfill my requirements , I need a complete script to decommission list of VM on that script.

[virtualg_uk]

Try the following from Powershell: Shutdown VM and Delete From Disk | Brian Gordon but ensure you test before running in a production environment as it will delete data:

Create a list of VMs to delete and store in a file named servers.txt

$VMs = (Get-Content servers.txt)

$vmObj = Get-vm $vms

foreach($active in $vmObj){

if($active.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"){

Stop-VM -VM $active -Confirm:$false -RunAsync | Out-Null}

}

Start-Sleep -Seconds 7

foreach($delete in $vmObj){

Remove-VM -VM $delete -DeleteFromDisk -Confirm:$false -RunAsync | Out-Null}