VIRTUAL MACHINE STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN for list of hosts

[emmoon1981]

Hello!! 

I'm hoping someone can help me with a PowerCLI cmdlet that could put all of vm's for all hosts in Automatic startup in addition set allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically and set delay shutdown and shutdown action  for each vms in all host .@

Best regards

Ehsan

[LucD]

Try something like this

$startDelaySeconds = 60

$stopDelaySeconds = 60

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStartPolicy | Set-VMHostStartPolicy -Enabled -StartDelay $startDelaySeconds -StopDelay $stopDelaySeconds -Confirm:$false

[emmoon1981]

Acctualy  I  try your Cmdlet below

"Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStartPolicy | Set-VMHostStartPolicy -Enabled:$true -StartDelay $startDelaySeconds -StopDelay $stopDelaySeconds -stopaction guest -Confirm:$false:

and everything is OK just it doesn't put all vm's in Automatic Startup Order

[LucD]

That could mean you already had individual settings for the VMs.

The lines above change the setting on the VMHost level, and will only impact the VMs that are set to default.

Could you perhaps add a screenshot of which exact settings you want to change ?

[emmoon1981]

Here is the screenshot of Before , after and my expected settings. The last one was set manually by using vsphere client. and I want to do it by PowerCLI cmdlet.

[LucD]

Ok, try like this

$esxName = 'MyEsx'

$esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esxName

$autoMgr = Get-view $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.AutoStartManager

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostAutoStartManagerConfig

$spec.Defaults = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartDefaults

$spec.Defaults.enabled = $true

$spec.Defaults.startDelay = 60

$spec.Defaults.stopAction = 'PowerOff'

$spec.Defaults.stopDelay = 60

$spec.Defaults.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

$order = 1

$esx.ExtensionData.Vm | %{

    $vmSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartPowerInfo

    $vmSpec.Key = $_

    $vmSpec.startAction = 'powerON'

    $vmSpec.startDelay = -1

    $vmSpec.startOrder = $order

    $vmSpec.stopAction = 'powerOff'

    $vmSpec.stopDelay = 60

    $vmSpec.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

    $spec.powerInfo += $vmSpec

    $order++

}

$autoMgr.ReconfigureAutostart($spec)

[emmoon1981]

Actually I tried that  and it works for "poweroff" stop action and put all VMs into automatic startup order .I am not sure is it possible to put VMs in specific order for example I have 2 hosts and 6 virtual machines for each on like this

Host 01                                        Host02

APP1.test01.org                       APP1.test02.org

APP2.test01.org                       APP2.test02.org

DB1.test01.org                         DB1.test02.org

DB2.test01.org                         DB2.test02.org

AD.test01.org                           AD.test02.org

WSUS.test01.org                     WSUS.test02.org

I mean at the Automatically startup order sometings like this : first is APP1 then APP2 after  that DB1 and ...

also I want to change Shutdown action to "Guest shutdown" so I put host01 and host02 in the text file that name is hosts.txt

and  change your cmdlet  to something like this

$vihosts= Get-Content "c:\hosts.txt"
foreach ($singleViserver in $vihosts){
Connect-VIServer $singleViserver -User root -Password mypass
$esx = Get-VMHost -Name $vihosts

$autoMgr = Get-view $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.AutoStartManager

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostAutoStartManagerConfig

$spec.Defaults = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartDefaults

$spec.Defaults.enabled = $true

$spec.Defaults.startDelay = 30

$spec.Defaults.stopAction = 'GuestShutdown'

$spec.Defaults.stopDelay = 30

$spec.Defaults.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

$order = 1

$esx.ExtensionData.Vm | %{

    $vmSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartPowerInfo

    $vmSpec.Key = $_

    $vmSpec.startAction = 'powerON'

    $vmSpec.startDelay = -1

    $vmSpec.startOrder = $order

    $vmSpec.stopAction = 'GuestShutdown'

    $vmSpec.stopDelay = 30

    $vmSpec.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

    $spec.powerInfo += $vmSpec

    $order++

}

$autoMgr.ReconfigureAutostart($spec)

Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False

}

now which change I should take to this cmdlet to have my order list?

Thanks.

[LucD]

Try like this

It assumes that there is a text file per host which contains the order of the VMs, and the name of that file should be something like host01.txt

$vihosts= Get-Content "c:\hosts.txt"

foreach ($singleViserver in $vihosts){

    Connect-VIServer $singleViserver -User root -Password mypass

    # Read order from file (<hostname>.txt)

    $order = 1

    $vmTab = @{}

    Get-Content "C:\$($singleViserver).txt" | %{

        $vm = Get-VM -Name $_

        $vmTab.Add($vm.ExtensionData.MoRef,$order)

        $order++

    }

    $esx = Get-VMHost -Name $singleViserver

    $autoMgr = Get-view $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.AutoStartManager

    $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostAutoStartManagerConfig

    $spec.Defaults = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartDefaults

    $spec.Defaults.enabled = $true

    $spec.Defaults.startDelay = 30

    $spec.Defaults.stopAction = 'GuestShutdown'

    $spec.Defaults.stopDelay = 30

    $spec.Defaults.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

    $esx.ExtensionData.Vm | %{

        $vmSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartPowerInfo

        $vmSpec.Key = $_

        $vmSpec.startAction = 'powerON'

        $vmSpec.startDelay = -1

        $vmSpec.startOrder = $vmTab[$_]

        $vmSpec.stopAction = 'GuestShutdown'

        $vmSpec.stopDelay = 30

        $vmSpec.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

        $spec.powerInfo += $vmSpec

        $order++

    }

    $autoMgr.ReconfigureAutostart($spec)

    Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False

}

[emmoon1981]

I try that  unfortunately I see this error and nothing changed.

also I create a text file per host which contains the order of the VMs.

[LucD]

Do you have VMs on that ESX node, that are not in the .txt file ?

[LucD]

If yes, try like this

$vihosts= Get-Content "c:\hosts.txt"

foreach ($singleViserver in $vihosts){

#    Connect-VIServer $singleViserver -User root -Password mypass

    # Read order from file (<hostname>.txt)

    $order = 1

    $vmTab = @{}

    Get-Content "C:\$($singleViserver).txt" | %{

        $vm = Get-VM -Name $_

        $vmTab.Add($vm.ExtensionData.MoRef,$order)

        $order++

    }

    $esx = Get-VMHost -Name $singleViserver

    $autoMgr = Get-view $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.AutoStartManager

    $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostAutoStartManagerConfig

    $spec.Defaults = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartDefaults

    $spec.Defaults.enabled = $true

    $spec.Defaults.startDelay = 30

    $spec.Defaults.stopAction = 'GuestShutdown'

    $spec.Defaults.stopDelay = 30

    $spec.Defaults.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

    $esx.ExtensionData.Vm | %{

        if($vmTab.ContainsKey($_)){

            $vmSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.AutoStartPowerInfo

            $vmSpec.Key = $_

            $vmSpec.startAction = 'powerON'

            $vmSpec.startDelay = -1

            $vmSpec.startOrder = $vmTab[$_]

            $vmSpec.stopAction = 'GuestShutdown'

            $vmSpec.stopDelay = 30

            $vmSpec.waitForHeartbeat = 'yes'

            $spec.powerInfo += $vmSpec

        }

    }

    $autoMgr.ReconfigureAutostart($spec)

#    Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$False

} 

[emmoon1981]

No I put all VMs in each host.txt   files .

[LucD]

Did you try that last version of the script ?

[emmoon1981]

I try your last script and again see the same error . in addition I try with another host.

[LucD]

Seems to work for me.
I would need to see the content of the $spec variable, and the errors in the vpxd log to analyse what goes wrong in your case.

[emmoon1981]

Sorry I don't know what is "the content of the $spec variable" and where is located "vpxd log" (I search for vpxd log in "/var/log" and didn't find anythings match with this )

[LucD]

The $spec variable is the parameter block that is passed to the method.

After you run the script, you can do a

$spec | Format-Custom -Depth 3

That will dump the content of the variable to the console.

Attach the output as a file to the thread.

The vpxd is the vCenter log.

But are you connecting to a vCenter or directly to the ESXi node ?

[emmoon1981]

after the script I ran "$spec | Format-Custom -Depth 3"

and see the .txt(attached)

Each Host Connected to vcenter server  but I connected to each one separately .

[emmoon1981]

PowerCLI C:\> $spec | Format-Custom -Depth 3

class HostAutoStartManagerConfig
{
  Defaults =
    class AutoStartDefaults
    {
      Enabled = True
      StartDelay = 30
      StopDelay = 30
      WaitForHeartbeat = True
      StopAction = GuestShutdown
    }
  PowerInfo =
    [
      class AutoStartPowerInfo
      {
        Key =
          class ManagedObjectReference
          {
            Type = VirtualMachine
            Value = 10
          }
        StartOrder = 2
        StartDelay = -1
        WaitForHeartbeat = yes
        StartAction = powerON
        StopDelay = 30
        StopAction = GuestShutdown
        LinkedView =
      }
      class AutoStartPowerInfo
      {
        Key =
          class ManagedObjectReference
          {
            Type = VirtualMachine
            Value = 11
          }
        StartOrder = 7
        StartDelay = -1
        WaitForHeartbeat = yes
        StartAction = powerON
        StopDelay = 30
        StopAction = GuestShutdown
        LinkedView =
      }
      class AutoStartPowerInfo
      {
        Key =
          class ManagedObjectReference
          {
            Type = VirtualMachine
            Value = 12
          }
        StartOrder = 5
        StartDelay = -1
        WaitForHeartbeat = yes
        StartAction = powerON
        StopDelay = 30
        StopAction = GuestShutdown
        LinkedView =
      }
      class AutoStartPowerInfo
      {
        Key =
          class ManagedObjectReference
          {
            Type = VirtualMachine
            Value = 13
          }
        StartOrder = 1
        StartDelay = -1
        WaitForHeartbeat = yes
        StartAction = powerON
        StopDelay = 30
        StopAction = GuestShutdown
        LinkedView =
      }
      ...
    ]

}

PowerCLI C:\>

[LucD]

IN the StartOrder property I see the values 1,2,5 and 7.

I would expect sequential numbers in there (1,2,3,4)