Bulk Scheduled task?

[rakem]

Is there a way in ESX 3.5 to add multiple VMs to a scheduled task?

I want to be able to restart about 20 Windows XM VMs so that the windows updates get applied. The only way i have seen to do this through VMWare is to create a scheduled tasks for each VM i want to reset.

Is there a better way to do this?

thanks

[Yattong]

Hey,

Ive found that using the 'crontab' command in the service console very useful for scheduling tasks in esx.

All you need to do is create a script and schedule it with crontab.

You could use other scripts however such as powershell, and use your own windows scheduler if its more familiar...

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

Unfortunately if you are using ESXi the crontab approach does not work, but you could use a Linux VM and one of the VI SDKs to achieve the same thing. There is nothing specific to VIC to allow this.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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