Virtual Machine Shutdown Guest

Virtual Machine Shutdown Guest

Issues a command to the guest operating system asking it to perform a clean shutdown of all services.

Returns immediately and does not wait for the guest operating system to complete the operation.

Required privileges: VirtualMachine.Interact.PowerOff

Request
URI
POST
https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualMachine/{moId}/ShutdownGuest
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Path Parameters
string
moId
Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case VirtualMachine/{moId}.

string
release
Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

InvalidPowerState: if the power state is not powered on.

ToolsUnavailable: if VMware Tools is not running.

TaskInProgress: if the virtual machine is busy.

InvalidState: if the operation cannot be performed because of the virtual machine's current state. For example, if the virtual machine configuration information is not available.

Returns VimFault of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: InlineVimFault0 
"VimFault Object"

Code Samples
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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/VirtualMachine/{moId}/ShutdownGuest
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