Powerdown VMs

Did you checked the online references?

https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.powercli.cmdletref.doc%2FShutdown-VMGuest.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI41/html/Shutdown-VMGuest.html

This should do what you want it to:

Function powerdownVM($Computername, $Hypervisor, [switch]$graceful, [switch]$Force, [switch]$StartVM ){
    $vm = get-vm -computername $($hypervisor) |? {$_.name -like "*$($computername)*"}
        if ($vm.name -eq "$($computername)"){
            if ($graceful.IsPresent){
                write-host "Gracefully shuttingdown ... $($computername)"
                $vm|stop-vm -Force -whatif
            }
            if ($Force.IsPresent){
                write-host "Forcing $($computername) to poweroff"
                $vm|stop-vm -TurnOff -whatif
            }
            if ($StartVM.IsPresent) {
                write-host "Starting $($computername)"
                $vm|start-vm -name $computername -whatif
            }
        }
}

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This code is in test mode and you will need to remove -whatif from both lines if you want to run the code in production.


commandline syntax is as follows :

for a graceful shutdown
. PowerdownVM -computername  [Computer you want to powerdown] -Hypervisor [Host that hosts the VM] -graceful

for a forced shutdown
. PowerdownVM -computername  [Computer you want to powerdown] -Hypervisor [Host that hosts the VM] -force
 
To turn the VM back on
. PowerdownVM -computername  [Computer you want to powerdown] -Hypervisor [Host that hosts the VM] -Start-VM

This should work for both Linux and Windows

i have to power down multiple VMs at once.
i have to find the way to get-VMs and power down  or Get-Content of a file.

Before I convert this to multiple VM's please make sure it works on a single. As I said before, I have not been able to test this as I do not have ESX to test on.

If you test the above code and it functions correctly, this should give you the functionality from an imported file :

$computers = import-csv "c:\temp2\Computers.csv"

<# CSV with three columns
Name,Hypervisor,typeofshutdown


typeofshutdown can support 2 values :

Graceful, Force
#>

Function powerdownVM($Computername, $Hypervisor, [switch]$graceful, [switch]$Force, [switch]$StartVM ) {
    $vm = get-vm -computername $($hypervisor) |? {$_.name -like "*$($computername)*"}
    if ($vm.name -eq "$($computername)") {
        if ($graceful.IsPresent) {
            write-host "Gracefully shuttingdown ... $($computername)"
            $vm| Shutdown-VMGuest -whatif
        }
        if ($Force.IsPresent) {
            write-host "Forcing $($computername) to poweroff"
            Function Kill-VM {
                                param (
                                    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
                                    $VM, $KillType
                                )
                                PROCESS {
                                    if ($VM.PowerState -eq "PoweredOff") {
                                        Write-Host "$($VM.Name) is already Powered Off"
                                    }
                                    Else {
                                        $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -vmhost ($VM.VMHost)
                                        $WorldID = ($esxcli.vm.process.list() | Where { $_.DisplayName -eq $VM.Name}).WorldID
                                        if (-not $KillType) {
                                            $KillType = "soft"
                                        }
                                        $result = $esxcli.vm.process.kill($KillType, $WorldID)
                                        if ($result -eq "true") {
                                            Write-Host "$($VM.Name) killed via a $KillType kill"
                                        }
                                        Else {
                                            $result
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                            }
            $vm |Kill-VM -KillType Hard -whatif


        }
        if ($StartVM.IsPresent) {
            write-host "Starting $($computername)"
            $vm|start-vm
        }
    }
}

foreach ($comp in $computers){
    if ($comp.typeofshutdown -eq "Graceful"){
        . PowerdownVM -computername $($comp.Name) -Hypervisor $($comp.Hypervisor) -graceful
    }
    if ($comp.typeofshutdown -eq "Force"){
        . PowerdownVM -computername $($comp.Name) -Hypervisor $($comp.Hypervisor) -force
    }
}

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Please be aware that this script is presented in test mode and will not power down your machines until you remove the -whatif parameter from the 2 lines it exists in.
line 17 and 46


In order to run my script all you need to do is create a CSV with Three Columns, save to or change the location in the following line

"c:\temp2\Computers.csv"
 
Save the file to yourfilename.ps1
Name,Hypervisor,typeofshutdown

Note: Name and Hypervisor speak for themselves,

• The typeofshutdown column is currently able to support two values, Graceful or Force  

If you use graceful it will shutdown the VM gracefully if you use force it will power it off.

Get-VM VMNAME | Shutdown-VMGuest
Shutdowns the guest OS of the virtual machine named VM.

This is the simplest script which I can share to shutdown multiple VM as per your list in .csv file  If you wish to test only use -whatif parameter instead of -confirm:$false.

$VMList = Import-CSV -Path C:\vm.csv
foreach ($vm in $VMList)
{ Get-VM $vm.Name| Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false}

hyper-v uses the command stop-vm -name vmname    # uses the guest operating system shutdown
stop-vm -name vmname -force   # forces a shutdown, allows 5 minute grace to save data
stop-vm -name vmname -turnoff   # equivalent to pulling out the power cord on a physical machine

functions should precede the code that calls the function.