PowerCLI: Stop your Virtual Infrastructure

Hi guys,.

Today we had a power failure and we were force to a part of the closure of our virtual infrastructure to saved some powers for our critical virtual machines, we spent some time in the shutdown process, my question is, how can I automate this process using PowerCLI and at the same time work on other tasks?, I found a script for this but it stop the entire cluster (ESX and VMs) all we need is a script that check each host ESX (or Cluster), looking for virtual machines defined in the script I want to stop, he will do it one by one and checking that the virtual machine is a full stop before you start the process with the other in the list, if for some reason any VM hang time fail safe module where he goes to this fair and stops the machine Virtual anyway, as verification will be nice to get an e-mail us the result.

All ideas are welcome, we experience ever this situation before so I'm open to suggestions in how to approach the issue in the best way, I read online that this can be done by using the priority settings VM defined in the settings of HA or creating folders for virtual machines and stop records based on the priority assigned to the forders VMs at this point, I am very new in PowerCLI and all I have is LucD book.

Thanks in advance.

The AureusStone script works, but if you want a little more advanced than the shutdown procedure, you could do something like that.

The script will read the names of the VM to a CSV file that has this format

"vmName".

"vm1.

"vm2.

"vm3.

The script is powered all the guests who are in the CSV file.

First, he'll try a stop comments, as VMware tools are running.

The script will wait $maxWaitTime seconds from the end.

If the guest is still on, the script will try to power off the power.

Still, the script will wait $maxWaitTime seconds.

If the virtual machine is still running, the script will try to kill him.

When all the guests are made, the script will send an e-mail

$sleepTime = 5 $maxWaitTime = 45
$report = @()
$vmNames = Import-Csv "C:\emergency-shutdown.csv" -UseCulture | %{$_.vmName}

Get-VM -Name $vmNames | where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | %{

# Guest shutdown     if($_.Extensiondata.Guest.ToolsRunningStatus -ne "guestToolsNotRunning"){
        Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $_ -Confirm:$false        $waitTime = 0        while((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff" -and $waitTime -lt $maxWaitTime){
            sleep $sleepTime            $waitTime += $sleepTime        }
        $line = $_.Name + " guest shutdown"    }

# Power off     if((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
        Stop-VM -VM $_ -Confirm:$false        $waitTime = 0        while((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff" -and $waitTime -lt $maxWaitTime){
            sleep $sleepTime            $waitTime += $sleepTime        }
        $line = $_.Name + " powered off"    }

# Kill     if((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
        Stop-VM -VM $_ -Kill -Confirm:$false -RunAsync
        $line = $_.Name + " killed"        sleep $sleepTime    }

# Problem guest     if((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
        $line = $_.Name + " problematic shutdown"    }

    $report += $line
}

$from = "[email protected]" $to = "[email protected]" $subject = "Emergency shutdown report " + (Get-Date -Format "yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm")
$body = $report 

$smtpServer = "your smtp server"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($from, $to, $subject, $body)

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