With the power management workflows, you can power on and off virtual machines, reboot the guest operating system of a virtual machine, suspend a virtual machine, and others.

To access these workflows, navigate to Library > Workflows and enter the vcenter, virtual_machine_management and power_management tags in the workflow search box.

Workflow Name Description
Power off virtual machine and wait Powers off a virtual machine and waits for the process to complete.
Reboot guest OS Reboots the guest operating system of the virtual machine. Does not reset nonpersistent virtual machines. VMware Tools must be running.
Reset virtual machine and wait Resets a virtual machine and waits for the process to complete.
Resume virtual machine and wait Resumes a suspended virtual machine and waits for the process to complete.
Set guest OS to standby mode Sets the guest operating system to standby mode. VMware Tools must be running.
Shut down and delete virtual machine Shuts down a virtual machine and deletes it from the inventory and disk.
Shut down guest OS and wait Shuts down a guest operating system and waits for the process to complete.
Start virtual machine and wait Starts a virtual machine and waits for VMware Tools to start.
Suspend virtual machine and wait Suspends a virtual machine and waits for the process to complete.