Спасибо за наводку!
Оказывается, на бесплатной версии ESXi невозможно выключать машины из-под power.cli (или я чего-то не так понимаю):
PS C:\Users\Admin>> Get-VMHost
Name ConnectionState PowerState NumCpu CpuUsageMhz CpuTotalMhz MemoryUsageGB MemoryTotalGB Version
---- --------------- ---------- ------ ----------- ----------- ------------- ------------- -------
192.168.100.254 Connected PoweredOn 2 70 3722 4,156 8,999 6.5.0
PS C:\Users\Admin>> get-vm | ? {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Stop-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
Stop-VMGuest : 11.11.2017 16:02:15 Stop-VMGuest Operation "Shutdown VM guest." failed for VM "w2008" for the
following reason: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.
At line:1 char:46
+ ... vm | ? {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Stop-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Stop-VMGuest], VimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmGuestServiceImpl_ShutdownVmGuest_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets. Commands.StopVmGuest
Stop-VMGuest : 11.11.2017 16:02:15 Stop-VMGuest Operation "Shutdown VM guest." failed for VM "lunux_server" f
or the following reason: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.
At line:1 char:46
+ ... vm | ? {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | Stop-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Stop-VMGuest], VimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmGuestServiceImpl_ShutdownVmGuest_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets. Commands.StopVmGuest
PS C:\Users\Admin>>Может, кто подскажет, как сие обойти?
Спасибо заранее.
