Script the installation of patches

Hi guys,.

I need to update a bunch of ESXi5.5 self-contained bed and breakfast, about 160 remote locations.

The hosts are autonomous, vMotion, etc. are not available options

I'm trying to create a script to perform the following operations

  1. Stadium updates ESXi55 of VUM
  2. Power off all VM running on each host (I found how to do this by calling a list of virtual machines to a .csv and on each virtual machine using the command Stop-VM)
  3. Put the host in Maintenance Mode
  4. install the patches / updates
  5. Reboot the host after installation of patches/updates
  6. Powering the same VM who were earlier closure (again, found this by using the Start-VM command in step 2 above)
  7. Run a report on the Patching for audits of compliance (following a discussion by LucD for this)

Someone has already tried this PowerCLI or should I stick with the GUI?

Any help on any piece above would be great.

Thank you

Seems good, just some minor modifications.

$vc = Read-Host "enter the name of the vCenter used to manage ESXi hosts.

SE connect-VIServer $vc

Game-PowerCLIConfiguration - ignore InvalidCertificateAction - confirm: $False

$hosts = get-VMHost (Get-Content C:\Temp\ListOfHosts.txt)

$BL_Name = Read-Host "Please enter the name of the baseline scan, for example primary ESX patches 2nd quarter of 2015.

$baseline = get-Baseline | Where-Object {$_.} {Name: corresponds to "$($BL_Name)"}

{foreach ($item in $hosts)

$compliancestatus = get-compliance-entity $item - unknown ComplianceStatus

If {($compliancestatus)

Inventory-scan-entity $item - RunAsync

}

Stage-Patch-entity $item - Baseline $baseline - RunAsync-confirm: $false

}

What exactly hand you mean with "..." not as clean as I would like to"?"

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