VMWare Restart Guest from Command Line

We don’t have to do this so often. So when we do I always forget the syntax. Login as root on the host of the guest OS. Find the numeric VMID of the guest and issue a power off/on command.

# vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -i "[GUESTNAME]"
Vmid                   Name                                                             File                                                   Guest OS          Version                                                                                                      Annotation                                                                                                   
114    PaymentsTest                            [Datastore-1] PaymentsTest/PaymentsTest.vmx                                               windows8Server64Guest   vmx-10

# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 114
Retrieved runtime info
Powered on

# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off 114
Powering off VM:

# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 114
Retrieved runtime info
Powered off

# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 114
Powering on VM:

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