![]() NAME Stop-VM SYNOPSIS Powers off virtual machines. SYNTAX Stop-VM [-Kill] [-RunAsync] [-VM] DESCRIPTION Stops the virtual machines specified by the VM parameter. PARAMETERS -Kill Indicate that you want to stop the specified virtual machines by terminating their processes running on the ESX . You can use this parameter to stop a virtual machine that is not responding and cannot be stopped or restarte d in other ways. To use the Kill parameter, you need to have a direct connection to ESX 4.1 or higher. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -RunAsync Indicate that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete. In this mode, the outpu t of the cmdlet is a Task object. For more information about the -RunAsync parameter run " help About_RunAsync" in the vSphere PowerCLI console. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -VM Specify the virtual machines you want to power off. Required? true Position? 1 Default value Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue) Accept wildcard characters? true -Server Specify the vSphere servers on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this parameter, the co mmand runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-V IServer. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? true -WhatIf Indicate that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are modi fied. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Confirm If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false, the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation. Required? false Position? named Default value $true Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type, "get-help about_commonparameters". INPUTS OUTPUTS VirtualMachine NOTES -------------- Example 1 -------------- C:\PS>Stop-VM -VM VM -Confirm Stops the virtual machine named VM after confirmation by the user. -------------- Example 2 -------------- C:\PS>Stop-VM -VM VM -Kill -Confirm:$false Stops the virtual machine VM by terminating its process running on the ESX. RELATED LINKS Online version: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI501/html/Stop-VM.html Get-VM Move-VM New-VM Remove-VM Set-VM Start-VM Suspend-VM |