Tip – PowerCLI to power on all VMs in a folder

This morning I need to power on and off all the VMs in a folder named CallCenter/ I created these PowerCLI one liner to do that.

This morning I need to power off all the VMs in a folder named CallCenter/ I created the PowerCLI one liner to power them off.

Get-Folder “CallCenter” | get-vm |Where-object {$_.powerstate -eq “poweredoff”} | Start-VM -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

Get-Folder “CallCenter” | get-vm |Where-object {$_.powerstate -eq “poweredon”} | Stop-VM -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

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