Sunday 9 March 2014

PowerShell shutdown all running Hyper-V VMs

PowerShell Script that shuts down all running virtual machines on named Hyper-V server. It shuts them down one at a time waiting while a VM shuts down before shutting down the next. Remember to substitute your <servername>. Quick way to shutdown the test environment at the end of the day.

$runningVM=Get-VM –ComputerName <servername> | Where-Object {$_.State -eq 'Running'}

foreach($cn in $runningVM){
Write-Host "Shutting down $($cn.name)"
stop-vm $cn.name -force
}

Add the following lines to shut down the Hyper-v server

Write-Host "Shutting down Hyper-V server”

Stop-Computer –computername <servername> –force

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