This is a VM I created using Terraform
When I run the command Get-VM "VMNAME" it works without a problem and it returns the vm info, but when i run Invoke-GetVmPower -Vm "test_machine_vm_01_output"
it return the following error
Invoke-vSphereApiClient : InvocationException: [NOT_FOUND]
Virtual machine with identifier 'test_machine_vm_01_output:UUID' does not exist.
The object 'vim.ManagedEntity:test_machine_vm_01_output' has already been deleted or has not been completely created
---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestPSCmdlet.GetResponse(WebRequest request)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestPSCmdlet.ProcessRecord()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\VMware.Sdk.vSphere.vCenter.Vm\1.0.110.20624081\Api\PowerApi.ps1:507
char:33
+ $invokeResult = Invoke-vSphereApiClient @invokeParams
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Invoke-vSphereApiClient
I can start the VM without any issue if i do it from Vcenter
The OS is RHEL7 not windows
For anyone with the same problem, the solution was to use the following command:
Start-VM -VM $vmname -confirm:$false
The -config:$false is used just to avoid any typing.
Not sure why the other command does not work and why it does not pick up the VM, but using Start-VM and Stop-VM commands starts and stop the VM created.