That depends, some tasks are not cancelable.

You would first have to "get" the task ID and then you can use the Stop-Task cmdlet.

Get-Task -Status "running"

will return all running task and you will have to select the one you're trying to kill.

Then you can use the Stop-Task cmdlet.

$task = Get-Task -Status "Running" | where {$_.Name -eq $tgtName}
Stop-Task -Task $task -Confirm:$false

Here the task is selected based on the name, but there are other properties you could use.

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Luc,

You're right. I got a error msg "This task is not cancellable"

So is there a way from powershell to force disconnect a ESX server from VC and de-register all the virtual machines in that esxbox and reconnect it back to the virtual center?

Thanks much Luc. Finally i disconnected that host from VC.

Is it possible from powershell to retrieve a list of all services running/stopped on a ESX(i) host just like the output of "service --status-all" command?

I'm afraid not witha PowerCLI cmdlet.

This

Get-VMHost $esxName | Get-VMHostService

only returns the status of the ntpd, sshd,vmware-vpxa and vmware-webaccess services.

You can of course use the plink.exe trick to launch the "service --status-all" command and capture the output.

Something like this (provided sudo is set up correctly)

$ESXserver = <esxname>

$User = <esx-account>
$Pswd = <esx-password>
$plink = <PuTTY directory>\Putty\plink.exe"
$plinkoptions = "-v -batch -pw $Pswd"
$cmd1 = "/sbin/service --status-all"

$remoteCommand = "'" + $cmd1 + "'"
$command = $plink + " " + $plinkoptions + " " + $User + "@" + $ESXserver + " " + $remoteCommand

$msg = Invoke-Expression -command $command

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Thank you so much.

I don't want use it with variable for example when I run :

Get-Task -Status "Running"

it shows follow  :

Name ;                    state:                 complete:

Deploy myvm             running               0%

Now I want use follow command and just type the task name . How can do it ?

Stop-Task -Task

How is this related in any way to the original question in this thread from 2010?

No problem . I will open new topic