Working with host services

PowerCLI has some cmdlets to work with host services. You can easily find these cmdlets using the Get-Command cmdlet, as follows:

PowerCLI C:\> Get-Command -Noun VMHostService

The preceding command has the following output:

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

In the following sections, we will discus the *-VMHostService cmdlets.

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[]>] [&lt...