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I will looking to migrate from VMware to AHV in the next few weeks.



As I understand it, it is not possible to schedule the state of a VM say for Shutdown or Power On, as you can do in VMware.



Is there a workaround and is this on the roadmap?
Hi ice



Can you elaborate more what exactly you meant by "schedule VM power state".



thanks

Artur
Hi Artur,



So in vSphere right now there is an option to create throught the vCenter GUI a Scheduled Task (Change the power state of a VM, Clone a VM, Create a Vm etc).



The main use of Scheduled Tasks for me is to shutdown and then after a short delay, power a series of VMs back up.



Does AHV support such a feature?
Nope, it does not.

You will have two choices:


  1. Create PowerShell script/one-liner and put it into schedule on some windows box
  2. Create Bash script/one-liner and put it into CVM cron schedule


thanks
Is this still the case, there is no automated way in Prism to schedule a task like VMware vCenter?

Is this still the case?

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