Script Shutdown vCenter

[DINUS1979]

Hi guys,

I made a script by copying a little bit of here is a little bit of there to turn off all my vMware infrastructure.
The script works fine, I only have some problems and we who would like to understand with you and maybe find a solution, I go in order:

1) when it sends the command "Get-VM -Name" SRV01 "| shutdown-vmguest -Confirm: $ false" it takes more seconds than usual to shut down because it has more substantial services (database). So I would like to understand how to give it a maximum time, like if it takes more than 10 seconds run STOP-VM.

2) I would like to have a log to see what happens and what went wrong. I am using Start-Transcript, but I don't find it efficient

3) In case of errors I would like the script to stop and not continue to send further commands.

I hope I was as clear as possible
Thank you

Moderator note by wila: Moved thread to VMware PowerCLI discussions

[fabio1975]

Ciao 

For the check if the VM is Power Off  I use this :

$vmservers | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
while((Get-VM -Server $vmservers | where{$_.PowerState -ne 'PoweredOff'}).Count -ne 0){
sleep 5
}

You can insert after the command "sleep 10"  the STOP-VM 

For the logs you can use Write-host to display info or save info to log file with  |  Out-File -FilePath c:\log.txt

To stop the script at the error you can try to use -Erroraction Stop at the end of the single commands 

Bye 

Fabio 

 

 

 

[DINUS1979]

Thank you for the reply!!

in my case the VMs are in the specific pool

[fabio1975]

So you want to extract the list of vms of a pool and then turn them off?

To view the vms of a pool you can try Get-ResourcePool -Name <Pool name> | Get-VM

 

Bye Fabio

[DINUS1979]

no actually i turn off all the vm present in the pool, but if one of those takes 20 minutes i cannot wait.
are you Italian??

[fabio1975]

Yes 

[DINUS1979]

allora parliamo in italiano 

[fabio1975]

  do you have resolved? (hai poi risolto?)