The Virtual Machine start/stop

Is it possible to script the configuration of start/stop VM on an ESXi host?

Thank you

There are scripts out there that can do this, but I think it can help you:

http://ICT-freak.nl/2009/06/09/PowerCLI-set-VM-startup-policy/

Remember that this will not work if you use a cluster HA as already mentioned.

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