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VI Appliance Category

Cmdlets are usually implemented around resource operations. The four basic operations are CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE. This set of operations is known as CRUD. Most of the cmdlets support CRUD which are respectively cmdlets that start with the New/Get/Set/Remove cmdlet verbs but they also may have additional operations

Step 1: Retrieve a object by running a Get command

You can READ objects by using Get-VIApplianceService cmdlet. See example below: 
# Retrieves all appliance services of the vCenter Server system you are currently connected to.
Get-VIApplianceService

Step 2 : Run commands from the CRUD group

You can UPDATE objects by using Restart-VIApplianceService cmdlet. See example below: 
# Retrieves the specified appliance service and restarts it.
Get-VIApplianceService crond | Restart-VIApplianceService

Step 3: Explore More Related Commands:


Start-VIApplianceService This cmdlet starts the specified appliance service(s).
Stop-VIApplianceService This cmdlet stops the specified appliance service(s).