Comments on: Set-SoftPowerOff

By: DGlynn

DGlynn — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:44:39 +0000

Thanks Hugo, and thanks for pointing me at the right cmdlet :)

By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:39:09 +0000

Okay, here’s how to check the setting before modifying it:
function Set-SoftPowerOff
{
param($VMs)
ForEach ($VM in $VMs)
{
$VMadv = $VM | Get-View
If ($VMadv.Config.DefaultPowerOps.DefaultPowerOffType -ne “soft”)
{
$VMConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$VMConfigSpec.PowerOpInfo = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineDefaultPowerOpInfo
$VMConfigSpec.PowerOpInfo.PowerOffType = “soft”
$VMadv.ReconfigVM($VMConfigSpec)
}
}
}

By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:34:32 +0000

Great suggestion, working on it right now. I’ll post it when it’s finished.
The Stop-VM cmdlet will always do a hard power off. You can use Shutdown-VMGuest for a sof power off. We are only changing the behaviour of the Power Off button from Stop-VM to Shutdown-VMGuest.

By: DGlynn

DGlynn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:00:22 +0000

Suggestion, can you have your function check the value of PowerOffType and not make the change and call ReconfigVM again if it is already set to “soft”.

I did find that it has changed the behavior of the Power Off button in VIC, but the Stop-VM cmdlet still calls a hard power off.

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By: jfk8680

jfk8680 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:35:37 +0000

Hugo,

It worked flawlessly. Thanks for taking me through it step by step. This is really a powerfull way to manage a virtual infrastructure. Great stuff!!

Jeffrey

By: admin

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:29:53 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,
Welcome to my blog!
To use this script, first save it to disk.
Then start Powershell / VI Toolkit.
run the script by typing the full path to the script file (use TAB for autocomplete). NOTE: you should precede the path with a dot and a space (it’s called Dot-Sourcing and allows you to use the scripts functions and variables after closing the script), e.g.: . “d:\scripts\Set-SoftPowerOff.ps1″ . No output is shown.
Connect to VC: Connect-VIServer “MyVCServer”.
Then get the vms you want to run against, e.g.: $MyVMs = Get-VM to get all vms or $SomeVM = Get-VM “MyVMName”.
Then run the function, feeding it the collection of vms: Set-SoftPowerOff $MyVMs.

Alternatively, you could edit the script and put the commands I listed above into the file itself. Then you could run the script by typing the path to the script.

Hope that clarifies things for you. If not, please respond.

Hugo

By: jfk8680

jfk8680 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:13:04 +0000

Hi Hugo,

I’m pretty new to this scripting stuff ;-). I’ve installed powershell and the VI toolkit and can run basic commands such as Get-VM succesfully.

Could you please explain how I can run this script so it modifies all my VMs?? I promise I’l dive into the powershell documentation asap but I’m in need of bit of a quick fix at the moment ;-)

Thanks a lot for your help!

Jeffrey