Hello Gurus,

I am trying to run some vmware scripts within a powershell script.  For example something like this;

script name is check_powerstate.ps1

$vcbhome="c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup framework"

$vcbhome\vcbvmname -s powerstate:on

I can't figure out how to run this vmware related executable file within the powershell script.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Andrew

Andrew,

Two things:

1) It would be easier to help you out if you gave error messages or more information on what is going wrong when you try to run the below.  If I had to guess, I would think maybe you are trying to run a vbscript within powershell.  But that's beside the point because:

2) You need to go here: http://vmware.com/go/powershell and download the toolkit which just came out the other day.  Then when you need help specific to that, go to the forums dedicated to it which are here: http://communities.vmware.com/commu...iscussions

Of course we're happy to help you here with more general Powershell stuff.

Hello Bsonposh,

The vcbvmname is a program that does work when invoked within the shell.  However, when invoked w/in the script it does not give any response back.

I do plan on installing the VMWare VIToolkit first opportunity.

The invoke-expression didn't work either.  I tried the following & it didn't work as well;

& "c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup\framework\vcbvmname.exe"

Thank you bsonposh,

Any idea on how to shut down a host with the VI Toolkit?  I can get it to go into maintenance mode, but not so sure how to shut down the host.

I wanted to thank everyone for your help with this.  You all were extremely helpful.

Thanks,
Andrew

Yeah, I assumed he was the same person, too so I didn't post here. But you you know what they say about assuming... Thanks for posting that, BS.

Andrew, be sure to learn the Get-Member cmdlet. You can examine objects with it to see what methods and properties they have. You'll see that the object returned by Get-View has a TON of stuff in there. Just be careful with it in case this is your production environment. ;)