I would like to control VMs from vcenter or another real machine within the network by some scheduled scripts. By control, I mean power on/off or plug/unplug the network interface.
Assume a VM IP is 10.1.1.10 and the vcenter is 10.1.1.3.
Another real machine (centos) is also available with 10.1.1.1. Actually, from the centos machine I open the web console of the vsphere/esxi/...
For the first step, I want to send a shutdown command to a running VM. I searched for that and saw some topics. But the method is not clear for me. Any advice?
Rest, Powershell, vSphereCLI(Perl), SOAP, pyvmomi
Regards,
Joerg
I am trying to use bash commands at the moment.
Right know, I use
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on VMID
to power on a vm and
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off VMID
to power off the vm.
To get the VMID, I simply run
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep NAME_REGEX | cut -d " " -f 1