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NAME
Stop-VM

SYNOPSIS
Powers off virtual machines.

SYNTAX
Stop-VM [-Kill] [-RunAsync] [-VM] [-Server ] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [ >]


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