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How to setup the power management of a VM to avoid its standby mode?

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#640 opened on May 5, 2020

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Description

The guest operating system is placed on standby. Then, the vm.guess.guessState is shown as "notRunning" although the VM is on. I would like to know how to change the power management related to this standby mode, using pyVmomi. Following the link below I can do it manually. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-879FA851-2B24-49E6-B58F-F25D0E923D17.html

The question is, which method of the pyVmomi API allows me to apply this setup to several VMs automatically?

Thanks.

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Investigate pyVmomi API methods for setting VM power management, specifically the SetPowerPolicy or equivalent method. Check the pyVmomi documentation and community samples to find an example of disabling standby mode.
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