Power on a virtual machine from ESXi cli: Revision history

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  • curprev 03:2403:24, 19 January 2024‎ Datanasov talk contribs‎ 656 bytes +656‎ Created page with "To power on, shutdown or reboot a virtual machine from the command line: List the inventory ID of the virtual machine with the command vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |grep <vm name> Note: The first column of the output shows the vmid. Check the power state of the virtual machine with the command vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate <vmid> Power-on the virtual machine with the command vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on <vmid> Related Commands: Power-off the virtual machine with..."