Script to Shutdown and startup of virtual machines

[as00201]

I need a script to shutdown and startup virtual machines from the ESX 3.5 console. Please also include how to run the script and also I have a few examples but not sure which is the best route to take see beloW: These were all taken from various sites of the internet and I am not sure what to do with either of them any help is greatly appreciated

(option 1)

Here is a bash script to power off all active VMs on a host.

#!/bin/bash

• IFS='*

• '*

• for vm in `vmware-cmd -l`*

• do*

• name=`vmware-cmd "$vm" getconfig displayname -q`*

• state=`vmware-cmd "$vm" getstate -q`*

• if "$state" == "on" *

• then*

• echo "Trying to power off $name...."*

• output=`vmware-cmd "$vm" stop trysoft`*

• if $? -eq 0 ; then*

• echo "$name was powered off successfully."*

• fi*

• fi*

• done*

(option 2)

VMLIST=`vmware-cmd -l`

for config in $ do vmware-cmd $ stop trysoft

done

vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

shutdown -h now

(option 3)

root@esxhost root--# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/44ebf538-51cc7998-2525-00145e1b556a/printer/printer.vmx stop trysoft

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Any of those options is fine. Note however that you may need to use 'soft' instead of 'trysoft' if this is through the RCLI. Also, to start its the reverse using 'start' instead of 'trysoft'.

Note that the second script also enters the system into maintenance mode.

What are you ideally trying to do?

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[dconvery]

Check out Duncan's script. It will shutdown the ESX too, so you may want to remove that part ->http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/06/16/shutdown-all-vms-and-esx/

Dave

[espi3030]

hello as00201,

Here is a shutdown script i found a while back:

1. set the paths that the vmware tools need

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"

1. try do a nice shutdown of VM there is power

count_vm_on=0

for vm in `vmware-cmd -l` ; do

#echo "VM: " $vm

for VMstate in `vmware-cmd "$vm" getstate` ; do

#echo $VMstate

1. If the VM is power ON

if [ $VMstate = "on" ] ; then

echo " "

echo "VM: " $vm

echo "State: is on and will now tell it to shut down"

echo "Shutting down: " $vm

vmware-cmd "$vm" stop trysoft

vmwarecmd_exitcode=$(expr $?)

if ; then

echo "exitcode: $vmwarecmd_exitcode so will now turn it off hard"

vmware-cmd "$vm" stop hard

fi

count_vm_on=$count_vm_on+1

sleep 2

1. if the VM is power OFF

elif [ $VMstate = "off" ] ; then

echo " "

echo "VM: " $vm

echo "State: is off, so i skip it"

1. if the VM is power suspended

elif [ $VMstate = "suspended" ] ; then

echo " "

echo "VM: " $vm

echo "State: is suspended, so i skip it"

1. if state is getstate or =

else

printf ""

#echo "unknown state: " $VMstate

fi

done

done

########################################################################

1. wait for up to 5 min for the VM to shutd

#

if ; then

echo " "

echo "All VM is off or suspended"

else

echo " "

vm_time_out=300

count_vm_on=0

echo "Waiting for VMware virtual machines."

for (( second=0; second<$vm_time_out; second=second+5 )); do

sleep 5

printf "."

count_vm_on=0

for vm in `vmware-cmd -l` ; do

for VMstate in `vmware-cmd "$vm" getstate` ; do

if [ $VMstate = "on" ] ; then

count_vm_on=$(expr $count_vm_on + 1)

fi

done

done

if ; then

#echo "exit for"

break

fi

done

#echo $VMstate

fi

#echo $count_vm_on

#####################################################################

1. checking if all the VM are off and if not then turn them off

for vm in `vmware-cmd -l` ; do

#echo "VM: " $vm

for VMstate in `vmware-cmd "$vm" getstate` ; do

1. If the VM is power ON

if [ $VMstate = "on" ] ; then

echo " "

echo "Found this VM: " $vm

echo "it is stille on but now i will turn it off"

vmware-cmd "$vm" stop hard

sleep 2

fi

done

done

#####################################################################

1. Will now shutdown the ESX server as all VM are now off

echo " "

echo "now all VM(s) are down, so will shutdown ESX host now... Good bye"

echo " "

shutdown -h now