script to stop the vm on the specific host

I am writing a script to shutdown gracefully all the VMs on a specific host.  I can make it work very well by connecting directly to the host with:

Get - esx myesxhost-user root - password password

stop-vmguest *.

that works really well. But what I want to do is to connect via VC to use accounts AD rather than use root host accounts.

so:

to connect-viserver (or get - vc) myvcserver-user me-password password

stop-vmguest *-Server myesxhost

makes me an error saying "cannot bind parameter 'server'. Could not convert "myesxhost" to "VMware.VimAutomation.Types.VIServer."

I looked around and found some info when you are connected to the VC, a host does not count as a "Server" when you use the - Server parameter. Or something like that. I'm new to scripting so apologies if I'm doing it wrong.

So I tried something that I found on the forum here, where you create a variable for $server that is bound to a host

$server = get-vmhost myesxhost

And then I tried:

stop-vmguest *-Server $server

and I get the same error as above, including the correct host name. So, I know that I managed to create $server, but apparently this is not the right solution to the problem.

Help please?

Thank you!

You can do it with the right word.

He stops only customers who are actually turned on.

Get-VMHost -Name  | Get-VM | ? { $_.PowerState -eq 'PoweredOn' } | Shutdown-VMGuest

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