Manage Virtual Machines and Their Guest Operating Systems

For a targeted approach to administration, you can use the CIVM and CIVMGuest cmdlets to handle lifecycle operations for one or more virtual machines.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a vCloud Director server.

Procedure

Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM*' | Start-CIVM
Get-CIVM -Name 'YourVM*' | Suspend-CIVM
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM1' | Stop-CIVM
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM2' | Stop-CIVMGuest
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM3' | Restart-CIVMGuest
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM4' | Restart-CIVM

1	Retrieve all virtual machines with names starting with `MyVM` and power them on. Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM*' \| Start-CIVM
2	Suspend all virtual machines with names starting with `YourVM`. Get-CIVM -Name 'YourVM*' \| Suspend-CIVM
3	Power off the virtual machine named `MyVM1`. Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM1' \| Stop-CIVM
4	Shut down the guest operating system of the virtual machine named `MyVM2`. Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM2' \| Stop-CIVMGuest
5	Restart the guest operating system of the virtual machine named `MyVM3`. Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM3' \| Restart-CIVMGuest
6	Reset the nonresponsive virtual machine named `MyVM4`. Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM4' \| Restart-CIVM