Set vApp Guest Shutdown

By On December 22, 2010 · 4 Comments

Annoyed by the default setting for VM’s inside a vApp? I was, because when you power down the vApp, the VM’s are powered down instead of being shutdown cleanly. It can be a tedious task to check and correct this setting for all your vApps. This little script solves that problem for you. Enjoy!

$VC = Connect-VIServer "MyvCenter.local"
 
ForEach ($Vapp in Get-VApp)
{	
	$VAppView = $VApp | Get-View
	ForEach ($Entity in $VAppView.VAppConfig.EntityConfig)
	{
		If ($Entity.StopAction -ne "guestShutdown")
		{
		$VAppConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VAppConfigSpec
		$EntityConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.VAppEntityConfigInfo
			$EntityConfig.Key = (Get-View $Entity.Key).MoRef
			$EntityConfig.StopAction = "guestShutdown"
		$VAppConfigSpec.EntityConfig = $EntityConfig
 
		$VAppView.UpdateVAppConfig($VAppConfigSpec)
		}
	}
}
 
Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false

Download script: Set-VAppGuestShutdown (rename to .ps1)

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4 Responses to Set vApp Guest Shutdown

  1. Dan says:
    March 22, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    Thanks,
    Works perfect.

    Reply
  2. Robin says:
    September 12, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    This works perfectly. One question, if I wanted to set the StopAction, or in mycase StartAction for a particular VM in a VApp, how would I go about it. I can see how you set them all, just can’t see how to select a specific VM in the VApp. Thanks

    Reply
  3. admin says:
    September 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    Robin,
    The easiest way is like this (note the “myVMName”). If you are using it in a larger script you can reference the vm’s by MoRef, but I will skip that explanation for now.

    $VC = Connect-VIServer "MyvCenter.local"
 
ForEach ($Vapp in Get-VApp)
{	
	$VAppView = $VApp | Get-View
	ForEach ($Entity in ($VAppView.VAppConfig.EntityConfig | Where {$_.tag -eq "MyVMName"}))
	{
		If ($Entity.StopAction -ne "guestShutdown")
		{
		$VAppConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VAppConfigSpec
		$EntityConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.VAppEntityConfigInfo
			$EntityConfig.Key = (Get-View $Entity.Key).MoRef
			$EntityConfig.StopAction = "guestShutdown"
		$VAppConfigSpec.EntityConfig = $EntityConfig
 
		$VAppView.UpdateVAppConfig($VAppConfigSpec)
		}
	}
}
 
Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false

    Hugo

    Reply
  4. Loren says:
    February 17, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    Just got bit by this! Thanks for the script!

    Reply