I had some time to tinker after an upgrade of my system
Wanted to learn something new, and play I found some useful commands
The first useful command i could run is to list all registered guest on my host.
vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms
Get power state of a VM
vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid>
From the image above you see the power state of the vm named pms
… and here are a few more:
Unregister a VM
vim-cmd /vmsvc/unregister <Vmid>
Register a VM
vim-cmd /solo/register /path/to/file.vmx
Power off a VM
vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.off <Vmid>
Power on a VM
vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.on <Vmid>