Put ESXi host into maintenance mode on a loop from a Text file

[rxjoseph]

Hello Powecli Guru's

I wanted to know if someone has any script that can read a Text or CSV file and put host into maintenance  mode

1. Add Txt file put host into maintenance  mode

2. Wait for the VM's to be migrated

3. Check if Host in maintenance  mode

4. If run additional powercli commands i.e some commands within the script

5. Exit maintenance  mode

6. Wait for 10 minutes until the cluster is balanced and make sure the host is out of maintenance  mode

7. add the next host into maintenance mode and repeat process

Repeat until all hosts are remediated

Can someone help me with this please

Many thanks

RXJ

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Something along these lines?

Get-Content -Path .\esxnames.txt -PipelineVariable esxName |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    $esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esxName

    Set-VMHost -VMHost $esx -State Maintenance -Confirm:$false -RunAsync | Out-Null

    while($esx.State -ne 'Maintenance'){

        sleep 5

        $esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esx.Name

    }

    # Run additional commands

    Set-VMHost -VMHost $esx -State Connected -Confirm:$false -RunAsync | Out-Null

    while($esx.State -ne 'Connected'){

        sleep 5

        $esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esx.Name

    }

    Start-Sleep -Seconds 10*60

}

[rxjoseph]

Thank you so much LucD