Start VM and Stop VM script

[SteeleTek]

Hello,

I am moving my Veeam B&R server and on my old one, I am using the following .BAT script to start/stop VM's for my backup jobs:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoLogo -executionpolicy Remotesigned -Command Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapIn; Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core; Connect-VIServer -Server ESXiHOST -user USERNAME -password PASSWORD; Start-VM -VM "VMNAME" -Server ESXiHOST

However, it gives the following errors:
Add-PSSnapin : The Windows PowerShell snap-in 'VMware.VimAutomation.Core' is not installed on this computer.
Connect-VIServer : The term 'Connect-VIServer' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet...
Start-VM : The term 'Start-VM' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet...

Even if I remove Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core, it doesn't work. I opened a Veeam support ticket but they said the help they could provide is limited.

Please help!

Thanks!

[jhoughes]

You need to install PowerCLI on your new server, then you can change the following in your batch file and it should work:

'Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core' should be updated to 'Import-Module VMware.PowerCLI'.

However, if PowerShell is higher than version 3 on the server then module auto-loading should take care of this, so I'd guess that you do not have PowerCLI installed, or it cannot be found in the PSModule path for some reason.