Working with host services

PowerCLI has a number of cmdlets to work with host services. You can easily find these cmdlets using the Get-Command cmdlet:

PowerCLI C:\> Get-Command -Noun VMHostService

CommandType Name                  ModuleName
----------- ----                  ----------
Cmdlet      Get-VMHostService     VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Cmdlet      Restart-VMHostService VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Cmdlet      Set-VMHostService     VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Cmdlet      Start-VMHostService   VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Cmdlet      Stop-VMHostService    VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Retrieving information about host services

You can use the Get-VMHostService cmdlet to retrieve information about the services running on a host.

The syntax of the Get-VMHostService cmdlet is:

Get-VMHostService [-VMHost] <VMHost[]> [-Refresh] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Let's retrieve a list of all the services of one of the hosts:

PowerCLI C:\> Get-VMHostService -VMHost 192...