Shut down guest - possible?

[bowulf]

Rather than use "Stop-VM" command, I'd like to use the "shut down guest" functionality in the VMware tools scripts and VirtualCenter. Is this possible via Powershell?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Isn't the Shutdown-VmGuest doing this ?

[bowulf]

Thank you - that was it... I was looking for the command under the get-vm help. That helped me out. Thanks again.

[BroutinR]

Hi,

I'm using the VI toolkit for Windows and it seems that I don't have the Shutdown-VmGuest cmdlet. Is this normal?

Thank you

Raphaël

[LucD]

Are you using the latest build (81531) ?

You can check with Get-VIToolkitVersion.

[halr9000]

You must be using an earlier build. If you don't see the below, then you are using a build before the public beta. Unless of course I've mixed up which build is which which is entirely possible.

34# Get-Command *guest*

CommandType     Name                                      Definition
-----------     ----                                      ----------
Cmdlet          Get-VMGuest                               Get-VMGuest [-VM] <VirtualMachine[]> ...
Cmdlet          Restart-VmGuest                           Restart-VmGuest [[-VM] <VirtualMachin...
Cmdlet          Shutdown-VmGuest                          Shutdown-VmGuest [[-VM] <VirtualMachi...
Cmdlet          Suspend-VmGuest                           Suspend-VmGuest [[-VM] <VirtualMachin...

Hal Rottenberg

Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)

[BroutinR]

sorry for answering that late!

I don't even got the Get-VIToolkitVersion cmdlet! :smileygrin: I'm using build 68764...

I have just downloaded the 81531. I'm gonna retry.

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely