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Your ESXi host admin user name, such as root: root

Your ESXi host admin user password: *******

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Your VM guest OS user name: ViewUser

Your VM guest OS user password: *******

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Type the View Agent tar ball path. Please take care of the installer arch: .\VMware-viewagent-

linux-x86_64-x.y.z-1234567.tar.gz

After the script completes, you can log in to View Administrator and view the Linux desktop machines by

navigating to View Configuration > Registered Machines and clicking the Others tab.

Sample PowerCLI Script to Perform Operations on Linux Desktop

Machines

You can customize and use the following sample script to perform operations on any number of Linux

desktop machines. The operations include powering on, powering off, shutting down, restarting, and

deleting the virtual machines.

This script can delete virtual machines from vCenter Server but not from View. To delete the machines from

View, see the sample script “Sample PowerShell Script to Delete Machines from the Connection Server

LDAP Database,” on page 50.

To copy and paste the script content without page breaks, use the HTML version of this topic, available

from the Horizon 6 documentation page at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html.

Script Input

This script reads one input file, which is described in “Input File for the Sample PowerCLI Scripts to Deploy

Linux Desktops,” on page 35. This script also interactively asks for the following information:

IP address of the vCenter Server

Administrator login name for the vCenter Server

Administrator password for the vCenter Server

Action to perform, which can be power-on, power-off, shut down guest, restart machine, or delete

virtual machine

Script Content

.DESCRIPTION

The Tool supports:

1. Power off VMs

2. Power on VMs

3. Shutdown VMs

4. Restart VMs

5. Restart VM guest

6. Delete VMs from Disk

.NOTES

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function IsVMExists ($VMExists)

{

Write-Host "Checking if the VM $VMExists Exists"

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