I was recently looking to make an change to the advanced settings of a number of virtual machine to which this required the virtual machine to be powered down in order to apply. Firstly, we will establish a connection to the vCenter system. If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) { Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core | Out-Null } Connect-VIServer server1.domain.local | Out-Null … More PowerCLI – Orchestrating bulk advanced setting modifications on a VM