Stop Virtual Machine: Service Details - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

• The virtualization software that runs the virtual servers must be running.
• The virtual server name, cluster name, vApp name, and resource pool name must be unique within the
vCenter Server.
NOTE: The same name cannot be assigned to more than one virtual server, cluster, vApp, and
resource pool although their types are different, such as a duplication of a cluster name and a vApp
name or a duplication of a cluster name and a resource pool name.
• If a cluster is specified as a virtual server's migration target, the virtual server being migrated must
exist in the resource pool under the specified target cluster.
• If a folder is specified as a virtual server's migration target, there must be at least one virtual server
under the specified target folder.
• In an environment that uses a VMware vCenter Server version earlier than 4.1 U2, if an inactive virtual
machine is migrated to an ESX in a different data center, an error might occur, in which case task
execution fails.

Stop Virtual Machine: Service details

The general steps for using this service template to stop a virtual machine are as follows:
1. The power status of each virtual server is obtained.
2. If a virtual server's power status is on, it is turned off.
The specified group of virtual servers are turned off according to the number of seconds specified through
the vmware.checkPowerStateInterval property and then checked to determine if the power is off,
which it does up to the number of times specified through the vmware.checkPowerStateCount
property. If the default values are not suitable, specify values that suit your environment.
Service Definition Properties
The following table lists the properties visible in the Service Definition window for the Stop Virtual
Machine service template.
Property Key
vmware.targetHost
vmware.vCenterServerN
ame
Property Name
Host name of VMware
vCenter control server
VMware vCenter server
name
Description
Specify the host name or
IP address of the server
(a server with vSphere
PowerCLI installed) that
will be used to control
VMware vCenter. You
cannot specify an IPv6
address.
Specify the host name or
IP address of the
VMware vCenter server.
You cannot specify an
IPv6 address.
Stop Virtual Machine: Service details
Required or optional
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