Power off All VMs

[jfierberg]

How do I use powershell to power off all of my vms and then the hosts?

[halr9000 · Accepted solution]

This one is a piece of pie.

Get-VM | Stop-VM

As for the hosts, that requires going to the VI SDK a little bit.

get-vmhost | % { (get-view $_.ID).ShutdownHost_Task($true) }

Hal Rottenberg

Author of the upcoming book: Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell

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