How to reboot a server managed by Intersight with powershell?

[arnold-romeijn]

We made a script to deploy new ESXi servers. (in powershell)
It creates a  profile from a template and connects a server to it.
Then we set the correct files to make it http boot and install ESXi.
But I cannot find the command to reboot the server to start the installation process.

"Set-IntersightComputeServerSetting -AdminPowerState Reboot " looked promising but that does not reboot the server but reboots the managament controller.

Anybody have any ideas.

[Mark Morsing · Accepted solution]

Hello @arnold-romeijn 

I just played around with the commands and it's correct that "-AdminPowerState Reboot" only reboots the controller.
But depending on how rough you want to be. HardReset and PowerCycle reboots the server.

I did the following.

#Collects the server profile
$ServerProfile = Get-IntersightServerProfile -Name "PROFILENAME"

#Collects Computeblade associated with the server profile
$ComputeBlade = Get-IntersightComputeBlade -Moid $ServerProfile.AssignedServer.ActualInstance.Moid
#Gets the specific servers settings
$ComputeServerSettings = Get-IntersightComputeServerSetting -Name $ComputeBlade.Name

$ComputeServerSettings | Set-IntersightComputeServerSetting -AdminPowerState PowerCycle

This also works
$ComputeServerSettings | Set-IntersightComputeServerSetting -AdminPowerState Hardreset


I get a barcalona error when i run the command, but it actually reboots the server

[arnold-romeijn]

Thank you Mark, that works!
Now i found (well, somebody send me the link )it in the API docs where the options are explained:
Cisco Intersight API Docs

• AdminPowerState:

  string

  User configured power state of the server.
  * `Policy` - Power state is set to the default value in the policy.
  * `PowerOn` - Power state of the server is set to On.
  * `PowerOff` - Power state is the server set to Off.
  * `PowerCycle` - Power state the server is reset.
  * `HardReset` - Power state the server is hard reset.
  * `Shutdown` - Operating system on the server is shut down.
  * `Reboot` - Power state of IMC is rebooted.