Manage Virtual Machines on vSphere

With vSphere PowerCLI, you can automate various administration tasks on virtual machines, for example retrieving information, shutting down and powering off virtual machines.

Procedure

 

1	View all virtual machines on the target system. Get-VM
2	Save the name and the power state properties of the virtual machines in the ResourcePool resource pool into a file named myVMProperties.txt. $respool = Get-ResourcePool ResourcePool Get-VM -Location $respool | Select-Object Name, PowerState > myVMProperties.txt
3	Start the VM virtual machine. Get-VM VM | Start-VM
4	Get information of the guest OS of the VM virtual machine. Get-VMGuest VM | fc
5	Shut down the OS of the VM virtual machine. Shutdown-VMGuest VM
6	Power off the VM virtual machine. Stop-VM VM
7	Move the virtual machine VM from the Host01 host to the Host02 host. Get-VM -Name VM -Location Host01 | Move-VM –Destination Host02