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Hi admins,

I want to vms stop included in a text file.

When virtual machines are poweredoff I would like to take a snapshot of each virtual machine.

When the snapshot is in place, I would like to start the virtual machine.

I tried for a while no and I can't make it work (very new to Powershell)

$vms = get-content c:\temp\vms.txt

foreach ($vm to $vms)

{

Get - vm $vm | stop-vmguest-confirm: $false

Get - vm $vm | new-snapshot - name (get-date)

Get - vm $vm | Start-vm

}

I wish it would be that simple, but it is not

How would you do that? (in the easiest way so I can understand)

Concerning

Tyler

You could try it like that

Get-VM -Name (Get-Content c:\vmnames.txt) | %{    Shutdown-VMguest -VM $_ -confirm:$false    sleep 30    New-Snapshot -VM $_ -name (get-date)    Start-VM -VM $_}

Note how the script uses the sleep 30 (seconds) after the guest shutdown cmdlet.The reason is that the Shutdown-VMguest cmdlet will return immediatly.And since you want to take the snapshot of a guest that is shutdown, the script waits for 30 seconds.You could also replace this with for example a 'ping' command and only start the snapshot when the guest doesn't answer anymore 

The script assumes that you have the VMware tools installed to be able to do the guest shutdown.

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