Shutdown ESX-Servers trough vCenter & VI Toolkit

[ksattler]

Hi,

is there any solution to shutdown ESX-Servers trough vCenter using VI Toolkit?

I have found many things about shutdown virtual machines etc., but about the final shutdown of the host?!

For my VMs I use "Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown"-Function through the VI Client....

Have you any idea?

[lamw]

You can use the VI Perl Toolkit to do so and here is a script that allows you to shutdown your guests and then the host: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9531

If you're looking for something specific in the VI Toolkit for Windows, you may want to try their forum for additional help. There is also a default utility with VI Perl Toolkit hostops.pl which can be used to run various set of tasks against a given host. If you're executing the shutdown from a system that's not hosted on one of your ESX/ESXi host to be shutdown, then that utility can be used and there is a VI Perl Toolkit for Windows as well.

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

[Troy_Clavell]

see http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-4210

[ksattler]

Thanks!

I have done this:

$HS = Get-VMHost myesxhost01.example.org | get-view

$HS.ShutdownHost("true")

$HS2 = Get-VMHost myesxhost02.example.org | get-view

$HS2.ShutdownHost("true")

I will test it on Thursday....