Start/stop of the Virutal Machine - settings of the ESX host

Hello

With the help of a powershell script I would change the parameters 'Virutal Machine putting into power' on multiple ESX hosts at the same time.

I need to change the following:

  1. Check or turn on 'allow the virtual computers start and stop automatically with the system '.

  2. And change the stop Action to suspend.

You how know?

Tim

And if you want to do it for all of your ESX servers, you could do

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStartPolicy | Set-VMHostStartPolicy -Enabled:$true --StopAction Suspend

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