How can stop / kill running tasks in vcenter with powercli

[baber]

I want force stop or kill running tasks in vcenter . 

Now when I am running follow command :

Get-Task -Status "Running"

it shows running tasks 

Name ;                          state                        complete: 

Deploy myvm               running                      0%

Now I don't want to use variable for kill or stop tasks 

I want use stop-task  command with task name . would you please help me about it ?

[LucD]

You will have to identify the Task you want to kill.
How will you do that? Based on the Task name (like Deploy myvm)?

If yes, you could do

Get-Task -Status 'Running' |
where {$_.Name -eq 'Deploy myvm'} |
Stop-Task -Confirm:$false

[baber]

Thanks . But want to now is there any solution to insert task name manually and run two command 

first command just show current running tasks :

Get-Task -Status 'Running'

now with above command we can find task name then run stop-task command with task name ? such as this 

stop-task -name "deploy testvm"

[LucD]

The Stop-Task cmdlet only accepts a Task object as parameter, not a name.

[baber]

Sometimes we want kill a task via UI and click on task and cancel it but it usually take a few minutes and sometimes more than minutes it takes to kill can we use that command to kill it force ? Does it kill task immediately ?

[LucD]

The cmdlet Stop-Task does call the same API that the Web client uses, so it will take just as long.

[baber]

As I find out Is that your means there is not any solution to kill  force a running process  ? Does it take same time such as cancel in the UI ?

[LucD]

I have no clue what you mean I'm afraid.

[baber]

I want to know is there any difference if we kill a job in the UI or Kill it by Powercli ?  Because most of the time when we kill a job in the UI it will takes time and cannot kill it immediately Now want to know Will the job kill immediately (force) when we do it by Powercli ?

[LucD]

As I said earlier, both methods will use the same underlying API.