Start VM to slow !

[pga07]

Hello,

I have a script to startup all my vm.

$vm = get-vm |where-object{$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOff"}

$vm |ForEach-Object{

start-vm $_.name

}

This is work fine but it 's to slow for start 200 VM (more 2 hours).

It s possible to launch multiple startup ?

Thanks for your help !

[halr9000]

Sure, this is easy. Just add a -RunAsync to the end of the Start-VM command. This will queue the requests in a number of seconds and the VC or hostd will take care of the rest.

Also, a tip, well two tips:

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2. start-vm $_.name is unnecessary. $_ is a VM object, and start-VM knows what to do with them. "start-vm $_" is sufficient.

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[pga07]

Thank for your answer. i 'll test it the next sunday.

For my next post, i 'll use your comments to post my code.