Set vApp Guest Shutdown

  4 Responses to “Set vApp Guest Shutdown”

1. 

   Dan says:

   March 22, 2011 at 16:55

   Thanks,
   Works perfect.
2. 

   Robin says:

   September 12, 2011 at 12:20

   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
3. 

   admin says:

   September 12, 2011 at 12:39

   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
4. 

   Loren says:

   February 17, 2012 at 21:28

   Just got bit by this! Thanks for the script!