PowerCLI Script –Power on bulk VMs(list of VMs) & check the power status

 In the case in future, if you need to power on bulk VMs in a VC and check the status of those VMs whether they powered on or not, below script can be used

 

1. Paste the list of VMs which you wish to power on, in a notepad and save it with some name.

 

2. Get-VM (get-Content D:\temp\s.txt) | start-VM

 

Here saved it on the s.txt file, then run above in powercli, it will power on all the VMs in the saved notepad file. once done if you wish to check the power status of the VM then please run like below

 

Get-VM (get-Content D:\temp\s.txt)

 

It will give output like below, or you can import this file to a CSV/excel, for better filtering for powered off/powered on as like below

Get-VM (get-Content D:\temp\s.txt) | export –csv D:\temp\s.csv

 

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