This is the start of PowerShell fundamentals series, which will contain some basic information and cmdlets. I’ll split this into several post’s, because I don’t want it to be a huge one pager. Also I cannot write all information about this topic down within one day. So have fun reading.
A few PowerShell cmdlets to manage vm power state from Hosts defined in an array.
With this basic structure you can combine several conditions -> very useful if you are going to maintain your vSphere environment.
First of all we need the necessary PowerShell-Module package for VMware: PowerCLI.
Depending on your vSphere Version you get information about PowerCli in the documentation from VMware itself: docs.vmware