A. Mikkelsen VMware ESX scripts, commands, tools and other nice to know things that will make your virtualization days easier!!!!

Here is at BASH script to power off all active VM’s on a host.

#!/bin/bash
IFS=’
‘
for vm in `vmware-cmd -l`
do
        name=`vmware-cmd “$vm” getconfig displayname -q`
        state=`vmware-cmd  “$vm” getstate -q`
        if [ “$state” == “on” ]
        then
                echo “Trying to power off $name….”
                output=`vmware-cmd “$vm” stop trysoft`
            if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                echo “$name was powered off successfully.”
            fi
    fi
done

The script was posted by Alex at the VMTN forum a while back, but is now updated so i reports if the VM is powered off succesfully.