Manage Virtual Machines and Their Guest Operating Systems

For a targeted approach to administration, you can use the CIVM and CIVMGuest cmdlets to handle lifecycle operations for one or more virtual machines.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a VMware Cloud Director server.

Procedure

Retrieve all virtual machines with names starting with MyVM and power them on.
```
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM*' | Start-CIVM
```
Suspend all virtual machines with names starting with YourVM.
```
Get-CIVM -Name 'YourVM*' | Suspend-CIVM
```
Power off the virtual machine named MyVM1.
```
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM1' | Stop-CIVM
```
Shut down the guest operating system of the virtual machine named MyVM2.
```
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM2' | Stop-CIVMGuest
```
Restart the guest operating system of the virtual machine named MyVM3.
```
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM3' | Restart-CIVMGuest
```
Reset the nonresponsive virtual machine named MyVM4.
```
Get-CIVM -Name 'MyVM4' | Restart-CIVM
```