vmware console command to resume all VMs that are suspended

esxi-resume-all-suspended-VMs.sh

#!/bin/sh
SUSPENDED=0
VMS=`vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -v Vmid | awk '{print $1}'`
VMstateToProcess="Suspended"
for VM in $VMS ; do
     # echo "Probing VM with id: $VM."
     PWR=`vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate $VM | grep -v "Retrieved runtime info"`
     name=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config $VM | grep -i "name =" | awk '{print $3}' | head -1 | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'` 
     echo "VM with id $VM has power state $PWR (name = $name)."
     if [ "$PWR" == "$VMstateToProcess" ] ; then
          SUSPENDED=1
          echo "Suspended VM with id $VM and name: $name"
          echo "Resuming  VM with id $VM and name: $name"
          # you'd think power.suspendResume is the inverse of power.suspend, but actually power.on is:
          vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on $VM > /dev/null &
     fi
done

while true ; do
     if [ $SUSPENDED -eq 0 ] ; then
          echo "Gone..."
          break
     fi
     SUSPENDED=0
     for VM in $VMS ; do
          PWR=`vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate $VM | grep -v "Retrieved runtime info"`
          if [ "$PWR" == "$VMstateToProcess" ] ; then
               name=`vim-cmd vmsvc/get.config $VM | grep -i "name =" | awk '{print $3}' | head -1 | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'` 
               echo "Waiting for id $VM and name: $name..."
               SUSPENDED=1
          fi
     done
     sleep 1
done