I have been using a script for a while switching off the esxi to a certain time. Crontab in used to do it, as this post
Unfortunately, this script does not do much than poweroff the vms and switching off the esxi; As a consequence the vmware’s running at that time would have been stopped roughtly;
All the work done would have been lost, so I decided to review this script to do the following;
– List of Machines currently running
– Retrieve ID’s for each Machines
– suspend command for each IDs.
– Then Poweroff the Esx(i).
This is script that I am currently running that suspend all running vms then the esx(i) is switched off.
I am more than convince that there is room for improvement, so any comments are more than welcome 🙂
#! /bin/ash
rm -f listid
touch listid
######## Listing the running vms################
esxcli vm process list |grep -v "^\s.*"| grep -v "^$" > list
########## cleaning the id.s file by keeping only the id
for name in `cat list`;do
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep $name | grep vmx | grep -v "^$" | awk '{print $1}'>> listid
done
for id in `cat listid`;do
###### suspending vms##########
echo "Suspending the running machines"
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.suspend $id
done
###### removing files############
#
rm list
rm listid
echo "done."
echo "shutting down the host now.."
/bin/poweroff