Reconnecting hosts in vCenter

[cmutchle]

Trying to reconnect a large number of hosts in vCenter after they appeared as Disconnected. All the Google posts I found were 5+ years old and it looks like the syntax has changed. I am using PowerCLI 5.8 R1.

Code:

Get-VMHost | where { $_.ConnectionState -eq "Disconnected" } | % {

    $view = get-view $_.ID

    $arg = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostConnectSpec

    $arg.userName = "root"

    $arg.password = "vmware"

    $arg.force = $true

    $view.ReconnectHost_Task($arg)

    Write-Host "." -nonewline

}

The error I am getting states:

“Cannot find an overload for “ReconnectHost” and the argument count: “1”

Any ideas how to sort this?

[gcanales]

Have you tried?

$hosts = Get-VMHost | where { $_.ConnectionState -eq "Disconnected" }

Set-VMHost -VMHost $hosts -State "Connected"

Set-VMHost - vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets Reference

[cmutchle]

gcanales,

Thank you. I was trying to make it more complicated than it needed to be. This got me on the write track and what ended up working was:

$MyHosts = Get-VMHost | where { $_.ConnectionState -eq "Disconnected" }

foreach ($h in $MyHosts) {

  Set-VMHost -VMHost $h -State Connected -RunAsync

}

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Chris.